@amina_lagos · 27 Jan 2026 · 17:00
Adopted. The European Union has imposed sanctions on the United States of America.
Ports, insurance, payments, and a designation list on 2 February. Hungary abstained, which does not block, and has announced it will not implement.
Four hours over the scheduled close. Rewritten twice overnight. Nearly collapsed at noon.
Watching European officials discover, live, that a sanctions regime is easy to write and impossible to steer.
We have been on the receiving end of eleven of these. Every single one hit a hospital supply chain nobody intended to hit. Every single one had an official at a podium saying "there are humanitarian exemptions".
The exemptions are real. They also do not work, because the compliance officer is not reading the annex.
Ports, insurance, payments, designations. Hungary abstains and refuses to implement. Estonia records that the package "measures the rope while the arson is at the door."…