Since February 2025, Trump has sanctioned nine ICC judges in the Hague.
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@randahl
All the more reason for every country to stop using Google, Apple, Amazon and Visa and other US-based credit cards. How much more warning do you need? Wake up! The US is never going to be your friend again.@wordstitcher @randahl sadly there is not alternative to payment cards (debit/credit) you would be able to user globally not even in EU itself only. And digital euro is far far far away in future. The rest is somehow replaceable, this not, yet.
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@wordstitcher @randahl sadly there is not alternative to payment cards (debit/credit) you would be able to user globally not even in EU itself only. And digital euro is far far far away in future. The rest is somehow replaceable, this not, yet.
@jan there are banks in the EU issuing non-US flag payment cards, and systems that, if the EU banks wanted, could work without cards from VISA/Mastercard (because they don't need the physical cards anymore and are mostly interoperable already): Wero, MB Way, Bancomat, Bizum, etc.
People need to go to their banks and refuse, en masse, to have US-linked cards. I've already contacted by bank and told them the second some other bank makes those cards available, my money (and all the business) goes there, never to return again.
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Since February 2025, Trump has sanctioned nine ICC judges in the Hague.
They have been unable to use their Visa credit cards, they cannot use Google, Apple, Amazon, or any other American service.
This is one man trying to intimidate the court system recognized by 125 nations, because his friend Netanjahu is not allowed to carry out a genocide.
Madness!
@randahl
A terror state that doesn't pay it's UN dues and isn't even a member of the ICC gets to destroy international law? Appears the axis of terror has won, as democracy failed to even show up to the battle. -
@jan there are banks in the EU issuing non-US flag payment cards, and systems that, if the EU banks wanted, could work without cards from VISA/Mastercard (because they don't need the physical cards anymore and are mostly interoperable already): Wero, MB Way, Bancomat, Bizum, etc.
People need to go to their banks and refuse, en masse, to have US-linked cards. I've already contacted by bank and told them the second some other bank makes those cards available, my money (and all the business) goes there, never to return again.
@wordstitcher @randahl@jt_rebelo @jan @wordstitcher @randahl
The EU banks are already working on the needed systems. I've met people from the UK's City of London, who are working on the contracts for creating this. The City operates internationally, so won't be tied to any single power block.
And the EU countries are realising that even when Trump is voted out, the USA will still want the un-balanced power-relationships that only benefit the USA.
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Since February 2025, Trump has sanctioned nine ICC judges in the Hague.
They have been unable to use their Visa credit cards, they cannot use Google, Apple, Amazon, or any other American service.
This is one man trying to intimidate the court system recognized by 125 nations, because his friend Netanjahu is not allowed to carry out a genocide.
Madness!
Madness indeed, it only illustrates how we need to get rid of any economic dependence from the fully unreliable government and big tech companies in the USA.
Nobody would have held this for possible, and yet here we are with a psychopath and his syndicate at the wheel… -
@randahl
All the more reason for every country to stop using Google, Apple, Amazon and Visa and other US-based credit cards. How much more warning do you need? Wake up! The US is never going to be your friend again.@wordstitcher @randahl Benjamin was never your friend. Benjamin is no one's friend. #WaynesWorld #Schwing
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Since February 2025, Trump has sanctioned nine ICC judges in the Hague.
They have been unable to use their Visa credit cards, they cannot use Google, Apple, Amazon, or any other American service.
This is one man trying to intimidate the court system recognized by 125 nations, because his friend Netanjahu is not allowed to carry out a genocide.
Madness!
@randahl What it shows above all else, is the dependency on U.S. companies for financial transactions, if this isn't a wake up call, I don't know what is.
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@wordstitcher @randahl sadly there is not alternative to payment cards (debit/credit) you would be able to user globally not even in EU itself only. And digital euro is far far far away in future. The rest is somehow replaceable, this not, yet.
@jan @wordstitcher @randahl Even if in the "worst case" I had to keep one US card for travel, until there's a truly global alternative, I'd still be making 95% of my transactions with a European card. So that's fine.
But I wouldn't underestimate what Europe can do: we're a much bigger market than the US.
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@jt_rebelo @jan @wordstitcher @randahl
The EU banks are already working on the needed systems. I've met people from the UK's City of London, who are working on the contracts for creating this. The City operates internationally, so won't be tied to any single power block.
And the EU countries are realising that even when Trump is voted out, the USA will still want the un-balanced power-relationships that only benefit the USA.
@BillySmith unfortunately they are taking their time to make things interoperable with a physical card (with apps it already works, with online payments too, even if fragmented).
As for not trusting the US? After Trump got elected (the very next day) me and some friends started leaving US tech, products and services. I ended the transition by March 2025, our companies and personal contracts, pooled, meant a loss of at least 3M€/year for US companies. Personally, I have paid around 180€ for US products or services since November 6th 2024 (because of contracts ending in March 2025).
And we're not going back even if Trump and his ilk go away. Not until the USA pays for all they've done and they show us, in no uncertain terms, that they have reformed themselves (major political, legal and judicial changes). Just like with russia, it isn't going to be "business as usual" right after the madmen go away, at least not for me and many others.
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@randahl
A terror state that doesn't pay it's UN dues and isn't even a member of the ICC gets to destroy international law? Appears the axis of terror has won, as democracy failed to even show up to the battle. -
Since February 2025, Trump has sanctioned nine ICC judges in the Hague.
They have been unable to use their Visa credit cards, they cannot use Google, Apple, Amazon, or any other American service.
This is one man trying to intimidate the court system recognized by 125 nations, because his friend Netanjahu is not allowed to carry out a genocide.
Madness!
@randahl Hey, Valdimir Putin is right here, and resents being forgotten. And also, the US right wing has been trying to weaken the ICC for ages. They basically don't think 'war crimes' is a valid concept.
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@randahl Hey, Valdimir Putin is right here, and resents being forgotten. And also, the US right wing has been trying to weaken the ICC for ages. They basically don't think 'war crimes' is a valid concept.
Because they don't want any accountability such as being tried by the ICC for their crimes.
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Since February 2025, Trump has sanctioned nine ICC judges in the Hague.
They have been unable to use their Visa credit cards, they cannot use Google, Apple, Amazon, or any other American service.
This is one man trying to intimidate the court system recognized by 125 nations, because his friend Netanjahu is not allowed to carry out a genocide.
Madness!
They can't use Google, Apple, Amazon, or any other American service - but surely there's also a downside ?
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Since February 2025, Trump has sanctioned nine ICC judges in the Hague.
They have been unable to use their Visa credit cards, they cannot use Google, Apple, Amazon, or any other American service.
This is one man trying to intimidate the court system recognized by 125 nations, because his friend Netanjahu is not allowed to carry out a genocide.
Madness!
@randahl Executive Order 14203
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@jan @wordstitcher @randahl Even if in the "worst case" I had to keep one US card for travel, until there's a truly global alternative, I'd still be making 95% of my transactions with a European card. So that's fine.
But I wouldn't underestimate what Europe can do: we're a much bigger market than the US.
@txtx @jan @wordstitcher @randahl hopefully these cards will be available in other jurisdictions as well.
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Since February 2025, Trump has sanctioned nine ICC judges in the Hague.
They have been unable to use their Visa credit cards, they cannot use Google, Apple, Amazon, or any other American service.
This is one man trying to intimidate the court system recognized by 125 nations, because his friend Netanjahu is not allowed to carry out a genocide.
Madness!
Let's not forget that the US have been on the ICC eyes many times.
The main reason the US is not in it is because they not want to be bound by international law.
The current president have already violated it so many times that his hate for the ICC is not surprising at all. By ICC standards, he should be in jail.
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@randahl Hey, Valdimir Putin is right here, and resents being forgotten. And also, the US right wing has been trying to weaken the ICC for ages. They basically don't think 'war crimes' is a valid concept.
@maccruiskeen @randahl their pov is “if you’re not cheating you are not trying”.
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Since February 2025, Trump has sanctioned nine ICC judges in the Hague.
They have been unable to use their Visa credit cards, they cannot use Google, Apple, Amazon, or any other American service.
This is one man trying to intimidate the court system recognized by 125 nations, because his friend Netanjahu is not allowed to carry out a genocide.
Madness!
@randahl I have good news for all of you:
The Netherlands is building its own desktop based on Linux and will deliver this to all offices of government and administration.The Netherlands learned from this lesson. When will the other EU countries follow?
https://www.techspot.com/news/114018-netherlands-building-own-linux-os-break-free-microsoft.html
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Since February 2025, Trump has sanctioned nine ICC judges in the Hague.
They have been unable to use their Visa credit cards, they cannot use Google, Apple, Amazon, or any other American service.
This is one man trying to intimidate the court system recognized by 125 nations, because his friend Netanjahu is not allowed to carry out a genocide.
Madness!
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/opinion/trump-legacy-history-presidents.html
https://jacobin.com/2026/06/iran-oil-profits-supply-shocks-wealth-inequality
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8pyyz5e0ro
Remember the names of the billionaires backing both Trump & Netanyahu's multiple corrupt criminal enterprises.
The Gaza genocide has patrons.
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/g7-energy-billionaires-pocket-300-million-day-start-unlawful-us-and-israel-warhttps://taxjustice.uk/blog/the-rich-are-getting-richer-from-the-war-on-iran/
The war on Iran has profiteers.
Miriam Adelson
Jeff Yass
Zak Gertler
Simon Falic
Robert Kraft
Elon Musk
Ron Lauder
James Packer
Larry Ellison
Arnon Milchan
Len Blavatnik
Spencer Partrich1/
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/opinion/trump-legacy-history-presidents.html
https://jacobin.com/2026/06/iran-oil-profits-supply-shocks-wealth-inequality
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8pyyz5e0ro
Remember the names of the billionaires backing both Trump & Netanyahu's multiple corrupt criminal enterprises.
The Gaza genocide has patrons.
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/g7-energy-billionaires-pocket-300-million-day-start-unlawful-us-and-israel-warhttps://taxjustice.uk/blog/the-rich-are-getting-richer-from-the-war-on-iran/
The war on Iran has profiteers.
Miriam Adelson
Jeff Yass
Zak Gertler
Simon Falic
Robert Kraft
Elon Musk
Ron Lauder
James Packer
Larry Ellison
Arnon Milchan
Len Blavatnik
Spencer Partrich1/
2/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8pyyz5e0ro
https://fortune.com/2026/04/09/richest-billionaires-quarter-trillion-markets-iran-war-ceasefire/
https://europeanbusinessmagazine.com/the-business-of-war-who-is-profiting-from-the-iran-conflict/
https://inequality.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/inequality-newsletter-april-1-2026.html
https://oilchange.org/blogs/deal-or-no-deal-trumps-war-on-iran-is-making-billionaires-more-billions/
Billionaires got profitable wars, tax cuts, & self-enrichment from corrupt politicians, while regular Americans, Iranians, Lebanese, Palestinians, & Israelis pay the price.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/2025-01-02/ty-article-magazine/.premium/war-deficit-there-are-enough-billionaires-in-israel-take-from-them/00000194-2751-d9c2-a79e-27d51f180000
https://archive.is/rYGus
