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[–] [email protected] 89 points 3 days ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It makes sense for all of Eastern Europe to be the same level.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Didn't realize Portugal was Eastern European

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Also Mexico? The Phillipines? Greenland?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Greenland, even though Denmark is blue.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

How often did you elect a socialist government you sickos?! I am disgusted.

Where do I sign up btw? Just so, you know, I can avoid becoming Portuguese.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

Who knows what that's revenge for.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I mean, austria has no issues skirting sanctions and the incoming right wing government around the FPÖ and Kickl is very Putin friendly.

I can see why Biden might be careful. But that may change with the new government.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

No, it's worse than that. Putin attended a wedding (in 2018, 5 months post Crimea annexation) of the then foreign minister [link].

They dissolved their government in 2019 after the then leader of the FPÖ told a journalist pretending to be a relative of an oligarch, that she could ensure positive coverage in exchange for government contracts. This might not be a direct link to a foreign enemy, but the corruption runs deep. [Link]

A senior quasi-secret service officer was discovered by the British to have been a spy for at least 7 years before he was apprehended. He was (cheaply) selling state secrets and providing information to the Russians... [link.]

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