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How the world can stand up to Trump’s #trade #blackmail

#Trump’s #tariff chaos offers valuable lessons about US & Trump himself

Applying these, countries can undercut Trump’s ability to #bully & #coerce

Lesson 1 is US economy is more fragile than expected

It’s potential for panic makes US economy more vulnerable than others

A second lesson is that Trump’s bombast belies weakness

When tariffs threatened his billionaire friends’ interests, he yielded

eurointegration.com.ua/eng/new

European Pravda · How the world can stand up to Trump’s trade blackmailBy European Pravda
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@varbin @f4grx @nixCraft @torproject Well, you can dynamically block them based off packet rate & amount of requests and rate-limit them as well as limit them in terms of transfer rate.

Not to mention you rarely see DDoS attacks from residential IPs and ISPs are quick to disconnect offending hosts upon reporting them, so worst-case one blocks a /24 for 24 hours.

  • This doesn't even account for the fact that #Skiddie-Tools like #LOIC are easily dstinguishable and filter for.

Again: if this is a real problem, any decent datacenter / hoster / upstream will gladly pick up the phone or reply to your support request via mail.

  • After all, they too don't like it when someone hammers their infrastructure, so they have a vested interest in #Blackholing bad traffic at the #IX level.

#DECIX even officially recommends that as a means to handle large-scale DDoS attacks and keep everyone else online.

  • To me a "#Layer7" solution like #Anubis comes way too late as it already incurs billable traffic at many hosters and datacenters and we don't want to cough up money because of someone else trying to #blackmail us (which is the #1 reason for DDoS'ers to do so!)…

I've been doing more healing work to recover from being abusively #blindsided by a jealous woman who I have never even met but had attempted to psychologically #blackmail my companion, after faking being nice to me. I never expected to be #suckerpunched by a woman I've never even met in person. It shook me. It traumatized me. It was NOT OK.

Never ever defend #abusive people who have violated #boundaries multiple times & harmed multiple people, intentionally.

End policy of appeasement — European foreign affairs chairs says

Chairs of the foreign affairs committees of eight #European parliaments on April 25 urged U.S. President Donald #Trump to end "the policy of #appeasement" towards #Russia, and called for a “resolute stance” against Moscow, according to a document seen by the Kyiv Independent.

“We strongly warn against yielding to its #blackmail and #deception,” the statement read.

kyivindependent.com/european-f

The Kyiv Independent · 'End policy of appeasement' — European foreign affairs chairs rebuke Trump's Russia stance"Negotiating with the war criminal Putin is evidently futile," a statement signed by officials from eight countries said.

Blackmail and the Trump administration

The USA has raised the Jolly Roger higher up it's mast.

One of the City’s so-called magic circle law firms is the latest to strike a deal to provide pro bono legal services to the White House.

archive.today/2025.04.14-18002

A&O Shearman had agreed to the arrangement in exchange for regulators dropping investigations into the firm’s diversity practices.

#MontyPython “Well, I didn’t #vote for you.” – Peasant Woman to King Arthur. But... Every Day we read this - 'This is the crisis moment': Political scientist says Trump crossed a crucial red line (April 14) - No he crossed it on Jan 20 and every day thereafter #media #journalism #corruption #power #blackmail #access #democracy #government #maga #politics #freedom #censorship #deportation #immigration #education #climate #healthcare #measles #economy #finance #insidertrading #wallstreet #markets

Thank you #Harvard! Standing up for the rights of innocent Palestinian civilians & speaking out against genocide is not anti-Semitism. Thank you for standing up for the Constitution and the first amendment rights of your staff & students

Harvard Refuses trump Administration’s Demands Amid $9 Billion Government Funding Probe #Blackmail forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/20

Forbes · Harvard Refuses Trump Administration’s Demands Amid $9 Billion Government Funding ProbeBy Ty Roush

@HarriettMB I do expect @antidiskriminierung and @AuswaertigesAmt to affirm #AntiDiscrimination #laws and either force the #US embassy & consulates to comply with #Germany's laws or close and cease operations.

If the #USA refuses to acknowledge that, they there is no basis for #diplomacy and I urge #contractors to press charges for #blackmail and #coercion if they get approached to fulfill for such #racist, #sexist, #ableist and otherwise #discriminatory demands because doing so violates national and #EU #laws!

This is sad and sets a terrible precedent for higher education. I get that they want research funding, but at what cost? Very disappointed.

#Trump #columbiauniversity #highereducation #blackmail #revenge

NYTimes: Columbia Concedes to Trump’s Demands After Federal Funds Are Stripped
Columbia Concedes to Trump’s Demands After Federal Funds Are Stripped nytimes.com/2025/03/21/nyregio

The New York Times · Columbia Agrees to Trump’s Demands After Federal Funds Are StrippedBy Troy Closson

Put into perspective: here are the numbers which support the idea that there are no reasons the #EU couldn’t push #Russian troops out of #Ukraine. The only remaining issue is that of a ‘Nuclear umbrella’ deterrence. On that front however, European fears are the only stumbling block. Russia cannot pull off a ‘limited’ #nuclear strike with Europe as the target without instantly triggering a US launch-reponse (maybe even a simultaneous preemptive strike on Russia and its allies). So for Russia to use the nuclear #blackmail card is but a poker game of bluff. IMO

‘The EU’s 450 million citizens “should not have to depend on 340 million Americans to defend ourselves against 140 million Russians, who cannot defeat 38 million Ukrainians”, EU defence commissioner Andrius Kubilius said.

“We really can do better. It’s time for us to take responsibility for the defence of Europe.”’

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@xs4me2 I always had the belief that there was something Trump dependence of Putin. More evident in 2016 to pressure Zelenskyy to come forward with evidence of Hunter Biden. And the email story of Hilary Clinton. Now we know that Trump could be bankrupt. #blackmail

This is all you need to know about the #EpsteinFiles according to #PamBondi, and it's a shame. youtu.be/Rr-SpKlNHUk
She didn't publish names on the #EpsteinList nor evidence how deep #LeslieWexner is involved in this honeypot operation by @israel

That's why it's funny if #IanCarroll is calling out #USpresidents like #JimmyCarter, #BillClinton or #HillaryClinton, #CIA, #EhudBarak, #RobertMaxwell, #Rothschild, #Belfour, #artStudents, #spies & #terrorists, #Lehi, #Irgun, #Haganah, #WTC and the high5ers aka #dancingIsraelis...
youtu.be/h9-XPT1sQlo

Learn more about #JeffreyEppstein and One Nation under #Blackmail with #WhitneyWebb
archive.org/details/one-nation

Trump wants to see more than just a minerals deal to restart aid and intel to Ukraine

As U.S. and Ukrainian officials prepare to meet in Saudi Arabia this week, felon Donald Trump has privately made clear to aides that a signed minerals deal between Washington and Kyiv won’t be enough to restart aid and intelligence sharing with the war-torn country, according an administration official and another U.S. official.
nbcnews.com/politics/national-

NBC News · Trump wants to see more than just a minerals deal to restart aid and intel to UkraineBy Courtney Kube