@dangillmor I am European, was there and now in Cortina. Both Israeli and US teams were loudly booed and JDV was booed and jeered. Individual US competitors are booed when introduced. The protest in Milan on Saturday evening which involved a clash with the police was against the IOCs decision to allow both Israeli and USA teams to compete. There is a view in Europe that the USA and Israel should be treated like Russia and banned. The USA is now seen as a rogue state like Russia.
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๐ช๐บ The EU has called for the "urgent" creation of alternatives to Visa and Mastercard to reduce dependence on the US.@muzicofiel @MAKS23 I understand theyโve already started to bring back their gold.
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Since the Second World War, we've said 'never again' like we were casting a spell of guarantee.@kristiedegaris what we are witnessing in the USA is the behaviour exhibited during the pre Civil Rights era. Jim Crow laws were fascist. When you think the final dismantling of Jim Crow laws didnโt happen until 1968 you realise how supremacist the USA is. And I say is rather than was because those who harboured these views didnโt go away, they just tempered their language and behaviour. They instilled these views through the generations. Trump emboldened them to come out from the shadows.