That’s still no reason for us to give them money. We can’t negotiate with the BRICS as BRICS because every cent we give to Russia is a cent that Russia will use to to buy things to fire at us.

They can’t win a war, but the way their regime is set they need to fight a war. And while they can’t win they can ruin many lives in losing.

You mean how they are helping middle east tyrants supercharge corruption in sports?

If you think what Trump says about Greenland is bad, you should hear what Russia keeps saying about the baltics and Poland.

Russia is not being particularly secretive in their plans for a war with the EU.

Well, for that their only solution is to use their Central America regime change guidebook closer to home, and hope everyone forgets the US’s propensity to elect imperialist assholes.

Well, the R in BRICS makes it even more toxic than the US.

If you have a self-consistent human rights framework all rights support and in some way encompass all other rights.

I love how the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union frames if, by starting with with “Human dignity is inviolable. It must be respected and protected” as the foundation that is so fundamental it’s just recognised and not “given”.

Putin is in the year 3 of a 3 day invasion, and became a vassal of China in the process.

Trump singlehandedly destroyed American hegemony, removing the tool he would need the most to deliver what the donor class wanted and he keeps losing games of chicken with basically the entire world. And I’m pretty sure Biden would’ve done lots of things differently if he could travel back in time even a few hours.

If they have time machines they are the most incompetent people on the planet.

Does our world sound like a world where any President of the US and/or Russia had access to time travel?

That still doesn’t invalidate that the authorities tried to deport people without a trial, ignoring the presumption of innocence and rule of law in general. That’s at least AfD level disregard for the Grundgesetz.

Everyone involved in this should be forbidden from holding authority until they are able to explain why what they did is the opposite of the values of a Rechtsstaat.

Everyone pays VAT that’s the point of VAT. You might get away with paying a lower VAT if you buy something from a small store in another country but you are always suppose to pay the VAT of the country where you live - for example if you buy something from a German online store in Portugal you are supposed to pay the 23% rate to the Portuguese government not the 19% rate to the German government, and big online stores will do it for you automatically.

Since they are already in the EEA, not directly. The main benefit in that front is that they would get a vote in the rules they already need to follow.

But the EU is not just economy.

In other news, Troy accepted Greece’s gift horse statue, in a sign of the improving ilian-hellenic relationship.

Of course it is. The only thing worse than arbitrary tariffs are unpredictable tariffs. Right now no one can plan their business more than one week in advance and even that feels like gambling.

The way things stand China might well end up providing the communist dictatorship to the new allies vs the American-Russian Axis

Everyone and their cousins have their own platform. That’s the issue. No one wants to standardize on someone else’s alternative so the incumbents reign supreme.

By that criteria so is article 5, as it only calls for “such action as it deems necessary”.

The closest, at least outside of China, would be Dailymotion.

The only part of GDPR that requires any effort is the ability to export and delete user data, which is good design in software any way.

Most companies breaking GDPR go out of their way to break it

From any European fashion brand? Though most of them are made in South East Asia and not in Europe.

Well, at least they are getting used to rebooting cinematic universes on an accelerated schedule.