This is absolutely fucked up. The people that received arrest warrants against should clearly be in prison, yet he is the man that ultimately suffers. We live in a backwards world.
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The more they use their power, the more they lose it.
Now that they gave us an easy way to know the extent at which we need to change the system to make sure we can be independent of them, we can start working on doing so.
Cool
How
The easy part, to know what we need to do - just ask the ~~6 judges~~ judge.
The hard part, to actually do the thingy, it will require separately solving the different facets of the problems.
This will require getting onboard, government entities that are interested in their country's sovereignty and national security and as many companies in the service sector as possible. For companies, you might want to be looking for small, privately owned ones, because internationally, publicly traded companies will only be joining to disrupt any operation.
Involving all the entities the operation will require making interfaces that lets them process the required things without any reliance upon foreign companies.
For the example of financial transactions given in the article, the best way I consider is for the country's national bank (whatever their name would be) to be the centre of all such transactions that would otherwise require stuff like VISA, PayPal etc.
For the inter-country transactions, they can then connect each of the national banks.
I consider this as ideal, because, this way:
- they can enforce it upon any bank that wants to operate in the country, even if they don't join at the start
- the whole system will be a part of the cost of currency operations of the country (which they would already have a budget for) and hence, you won't have exorbitant levels of service charges
- this would be the path of least resistance for any well-functioning government
- why? It's about national security. No country would want their financial system decimated by a single thought of a guy with a painted face.
More good things that will come out of it:
- Payment processors will no longer get the power to step over their bounds like they are doing right now, with hardly any consequences (see Steam accounts being blocked)
- Wartime economies will be much more stable
- doesn't matter if your country is somehow a "good" one and doesn't start a war. As long as US or Russia is doing sth, it reaches you
- Countries can now provide better tech employment opportunities that actually work, hence retaining more of their skilled workforce, which will make a difference in times of adversity (as long as the govt itself is not the cause of the adversity)
- for instance, you would require something at the level of Cloudflare for the company infrastructure. As a result, you will retain people with skill-sets that would be found at such a place
- Countries retain more of their capital (which would otherwise be going to those US companies as service fees), hence retaining their ratio to USD. This should offset any extra costs incurred from having to increase their currency budget and have more remaining.
Online bookings, such as through Expedia, are immediately canceled, even if they concern hotels in France.
I kinda wonder about that, hotel bookings usually require name and contact information only. So does Expedia and/or participating hotels blacklist all individuals with the name "Nicolas Guillou", or is it based on email address / phone number (that could easily be changed)?
How can anyone believe they're the good guys when they are sanctioning individuals upholding human roghts?