Btw I found it beyond ironic that @zendis@social.bund.de 's booth, the German Center for Digital Sovereignty, who build sovereign alternatives, was placed next to the evil empire looking Mastercard area at SCCON26.

#opensource #digitalsovereignty #SCCON26 #USpol

@Gina@fosstodon.org EU allowing US to treat ICC as a terrorist organization is mindblowing

@Gina@fosstodon.org La Guerre de Trump contre NOUS, les européens

@Gina@fosstodon.org De NOS is doodstil over ABN AMRO. Redenen??

@Gina@fosstodon.org If it happens, it might change consumers' mindset and awareness, and give momentum to alternatives to US payment providers like the European Wero.

Or the GNU Taler?

But more likely, the bank drops its customer to prevent being hit by sanctions. It's a dirty game...

@Gina@fosstodon.org Good. Maybe that will force NL and the EU to wake up. There is no "international banking system" if one deranged president can unilaterally control it.

@Gina@fosstodon.org btw has / had the #icc an youtube channel, which could be .. interfered by ähm .. homeland_sec_orders ?
..
maybe also relevant for orgs like @greenpeace@mastodon.social
@greenpeace_de@greenpeace.social

#maga_Fools
#antifa_east

Worth pointing out that Amsterdam Trade Bank was a subsidiary of the Russian Alfa-Bank, and the sanctions on it were due to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. ABN is much larger but yeah I do agree that it will most likely just capitulate in this case : sad times

@Gina@fosstodon.org When the EU will declare USA as a rogue state, and suspend the cooperation with them? This is ridiculous, that we allow this tangerine puppet to dismantle the mechanisms of civilisation.

@Gina@fosstodon.org we need to disentangle europe from the American chokehold like this friggin second. This is madness.

@Gina@fosstodon.org I hope the new agromerate of banking systems in the EU come online sooner than later, we need payment independence of the VISA, MasterCard as soon as possible.

My country already is going that way with SIBS unification with other systems in the EU.

@Gina@fosstodon.org What about Raiffeisen Bank? They operate in Russia.

@Gina@fosstodon.org

Please, for the confused underinformed: how does the US control the INTERNATIONAL banking system?

Maybe it is time for another banking system?

@Gina@fosstodon.org Reminder that this is the United States imposing sanctions on anyone even remotely related to a court specifically created to prosecute genocides and crimes against humanity at the behest of Israel, a country that's been systematically eradicating Palestinians for decades now.

The EU needs to step up and protect anyone and everyone within it's borders from these totally immoral US sanctions.

#genocide #israel

@Gina@fosstodon.org we so need to disconnect from the entire failed american experiment. It's rotting carcass is infecting us all.

@Gina@fosstodon.org My very personal opinion is that any international operator should have been thinking (way before this) "how do we stay in business considering the USA disappeared yesterday?" (not today).
Large systems have an inertia that is penalyzing their functions, in a world now ruled only by demented dictators.

@Gina@fosstodon.org

Felon 47 will have nothing to do with the international criminal court but the International Financial Market that he can manipulate at his will, oh,
he's all in

@Gina@fosstodon.org AAAAAARRRRGHGHGHGGH

@Gina@fosstodon.org USA is no better than Russia these days…

My suggestion to everyone is we stop dreaming of better days long gone and start cooking. 🤔

@Gina@fosstodon.org How hard would it be to set up an alternative system and have all EU banks leave the US system?

@Gina@fosstodon.org What Norges Bank Investment Management will do then with their us assets in portfolio?