microblog · @amina_lagos · civilian · 27 January 2026, 17:00
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.
Not political. I do not know what any of this means and I am getting nothing from the base. Card did not work at the commissary. Two aircraft that were supposed to take his section out on Monday are still sitting there. Somebody said it is …
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."
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…
What was rejected matters as much. A general ban on US military aircraft and vessels using any EU infrastructure was dropped — Berlin and Paris said it would be "a blockade, drafted and signed." Naming US officials individually was set aside and "held in reser…
Estonia's minority statement, in full, because it is the best sentence anyone has produced this month: "The package as adopted measures the rope while the arson is at the door."
Genuine question for anyone who knows: what happens to ordinary things? I have a US pension from eight years in Boston. My sister banks with an American bank here. Is any of that in this, or is it only governments? Nobody in the coverage says and everyone I as…
Those weapons are American property, in American vaults, with American locks. Nobody needs a letter from me to understand who they belong to.
Q: The European Union has sanctioned the United States. First time in history. A: First time in history. They should put that on a plaque. Hungary wouldn't sign it. One country in twenty-seven still remembers who paid for the last eighty years. Q: Mr President…