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This summer Kimberly Prost, a Canadian judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC), arrived at her home in The Hague and, as was her habit, called out “Alexa”.
There was silence. The voice-activated assistant did not respond. “Alexa was dead. She wouldn’t talk to me,” Prost recalled in an interview with The Irish Times.
Prost had been added to the United States’ sanctions list, because in 2020 she ruled to authorise an investigation into possible atrocities in Afghanistan, including by US troops. Amazon, obliged to implement the sanctions as a US company, had cancelled her account.
It was just the start of what Prost describes as a “pervasive, negative effect” of the sanctions across all aspects of her life, which has shut her out from much of the international banking system.
Why not European?
I didn’t know that Europe has a financial system that work indecently from American one.
For example:
US has Visa, Mastercard and American Express. China has Union Pay.
What does Europe have?
European politics are a joke and is basically the same imperialist bs the US does. It’s why those colonizers are getting kicked out in Africa more and more