Norway issues travel warning for US
Norway issues travel warning for US
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Norway issues travel update for US
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All these reports of travel warnings feel misleading to me.
A proper travel warning equates to insurance companies refusing to provide travel insurance, which directly impacts whether people would travel to the USA. None of the "warning" updates have gone to that level.
Updating travel guidance isn't that big a deal.
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Does travel insurance have to pay out if your destination country kidnaps you and sends you to a prison in El Salvador or Cuba?
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Not sure -- but it's plausible that the media/bubbles are hyping up that sort of event, even if it's an outlier. Like there are millions of visits to the US from Canada on a regular basis -- one lady got put in a detention area, as a result of having wonky paper work on a longer term work visa (something most regular tourists/travellers don't have to worry about).
As far as I know, travel advisories aren't issued as a result of 'cost to insurance companies', but rather danger/risk to citizens travelling to those countries, imposed by governments. Travel insurance providers look at those, and determine risk/coverage based on that sort of information. So no explicit warning, implies there's no significant risk, for most visitor types.
Advising something like "If you use X as a gender, make sure to carry additional paperwork/figure out additional rules", isn't something that's going to cause a "generic" family to worry about going to Disney Land.
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It's not like there is only the option of 'no warning' and 'a warning'. These government warn people because they foresee a potential danger for their citizens. What makes this a big deal is that these warnings come from countries who are allies and used to have similar values. The fact that they don't believe you are safe is one thing, but they basically also say they can't use their diplomatic means to keep you safe and that really is imho why this is a very serious sign that the global order is shifting.
In general these warnings are not only for lgbtqi+ folk, but also for scientists and critical journalists. Think of other countries where those people aren't safe, they are not western democracies like the US used to be.
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As another poster commented, the actual article doesn't call it a 'warning'. So, this does look like social media/bubble hyping up the issue.
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These warnings are what ministries of foreign affairs (= government officials) give out to their citizens. Newsweek is neither based in Norway nor written in Norwegian (it's US-based), so saying it looks like something based on this single source isn't adding much weight to your argument.
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Oh, wait, ok, let me go do up a massive post with a ton of cited sources and detailed research in order to support an online opinion about the general feeling I get when seeing these sorts of articles -- specifically ones where the social media site (this lemmy OPs post) re-words the title of the article from "travel update" to "travel warning", and aims to get people going on about how the USA is evil.
Or, no, I won't bother. It's an online opinion meant to draw some additional thought / criticism towards these sorts of posts, and the intentions behind them.
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I didn't reply to you because of how evil the USA is or isn't but because I wanted to stress to you how big the change is that is happening. I assume you're American and dislike anti-American opinions, I'm fine with that. I also don't like it when people don't like my country or my people. This is not personal, I'm not anti you. But I do think you are wrong that these travel updates are just a social media hype. The friendship between US and other western countries is under severe pressure, that is not just an opinion.
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I ain't American. I'm from one of the countries most irked by America at present (Canada) -- if you look at my @, I'm on a Canadian lemmy server.
But its still true that Russian propaganda is mostly about disrupting allied nations and fostering civil unrest / animosity between countries. They have literally stated that they seek to amplify things like race-oriented conflicts and stories, because it helps to destabilize western countries (so things like Tiktok, where any anti-black event is automatically on the front page, is part of that routine -- compared to other nations, where it shows more benign things, such as "child prodigy plays piano"). Things like "BuyCanadian" campaigns are likely supported/partially funded by Russian interests -- because it's not just "avoid american products", but "avoid all traditional allies" in tone. Sorta like how Russia didn't need specific 'agents' in the US, but could instead fund "influencers" that were saying things that promoted Russian geopolitical goals.
Is there a reason to be concerned about what's going on in the states? Yes. Doesn't mean that we should hype up negativity beyond reason / create anti-american echo chambers.
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I agree with you on the not going along with russian bots and giving space to their propaganda. I'm not pointing to wether you should be concerned of what is happening within the United states, but about what is happening between the us and it's allies. This split is not caused by russian bots online, but by the current us government. I agree Russia is likely involved, but the answer in not staying quiet. You can call this echoing anti-American propaganda, but dismissing it as such makes you vulnerable to tolerating this split happening as opposed to moving against it.
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I'm mostly familiar with the Canadian situation due to my locale.
What I'd say on this front, is that the government of Canada has generally taken preformative steps so far in regards to the issues in the USA. There's a lot of chest thumping and pageantry. Our largest province, Ontario, recently re-elected a fairly hard right Conservative politician -- one who is well known for doing things against the public interest (like selling off what little green/parkland exists around toronto, to his developer buddies)... he was re-elected because he draped himself in pro-Canada trappings. He's the guy who made the "Canada is not for sale" hats more popular. Branding yourself as captain Canada works for elections currently -- which is why, for example, its very likely we'll see a Liberal party returned to power federally, even though until very recently they were looking at a significant routing (that, plus them changing to Carney, who is probably the most right-wing/conservative leader of the Liberal/"centrist" party in history).
When I say preformative, I mean things like... there have been no explicit calls from our government to businesses/industry to follow suit on untangling supply chains or shifting trade relationships explicitly -- they've taken some steps to try and lay ground work for further diversification of international trade, but haven't pushed any levers, outside of allowing market forces to do their thing. Our banking regulators, for example, happily remain within Microsoft's cloud ecosystems -- and they have seemingly no interest in the financial industry outsourcing all of their websites to foreign countries / the USA. Many of our levels of government have made overtures of "buy local" procurement policies, but when you ask for details they're all just "planning/reviewing/considering", without direct action on the table. It's not what you'd expect, given the 'rhetoric' of it being an existential threat / crisis. Our politicians are full of sound and fury, but they aren't bothered enough to take direct action at this point.
If you rely on concrete / verifiable data points from our government, trade and relations are deteriorating, but there's no overt cautions/warnings/mandates to take action. Media posts that hype up the fear by changing words feed into the public paranoia, and ignore the relative calm seen in our government agencies.
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There might be a big difference in how Canadian government deals with this and how western-european governments do. Sounds like far-right is hijacking the subject, where as here the far-right used to be pro-trump and pro-putin and now have to stay quiet in order to keep their voters from walking away.
Our government is being realistic (If you ask me) about changes in defense, but only the opposition is questioning things like the government being dependent on American cloud services and American financial systems. Nobody in the government seems serious about supporting EU initiatives over the status quo. That's why I'm 'happy' these at least these warnings/updates are being released.
I read something like the travel (or air movements?) between us and Canada decreased 70%, so issueing some kind of warning/update wouldn't make much sense anymore anyways
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Yeah, the drop in travel and drop in spending on American stuff is sharp -- not sure the specific %, but it's definitely up there. What's interesting is that it's a "spontaneous" reaction from many Canadians, not so much a result of leadership. Like, yes, Trudeau made a speech or two that were fairly clear on the sentiments, but people'd already been booing at hockey games / cancelling trips etc before that. Sorta like our armed forces reserve applications going bonkers / crashing the website frequently due to volume, without any specific reason.
But these things are still driven by what seems like mass paranoia / potentially media trends, to some extent - especially as there's been few 'real' controls/measures implemented. Canadian media is heavily skewed/oriented towards the USA, so we've seen a fairly constant blast of negative Trump/American perspectives. Social media makes it really easy to fan those xenophobic flames -- like you'd just need a small batch of bots/agents upvoting/downvoting posts to shift the herds perspective on sites like reddit, as, if they catch posts 'early', that'd essentially allow control of which comments are visible, allowing for control of the discussion. The anti-american stuff feels a lot like a social media trend in this respect -- like people 'spontaneously' recording themselves dumping buckets of ice water on their heads, or taking photos of 'planking', or some random dance move, or stealing stuff from public washrooms, etc. Those sorts of things were basically coordinated through algorithms on social media, moreso than people rationally/objectively deciding to do them. It's not like people across the country woke up one day and all thought "I know how to support ALS research, I'll film myself dumping a bucket of water on my head!". It was a nonsensical behaviour pattern spurred on by oligarch controlled algorithms, demonstrating the power of those algorithms to manipulate the masses.
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I don’t know if it was updated, but the current title of the article is “Norway Issues Travel Update For US”, which better reflects what they did.
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Yeah, so it definitely gives the vibe of social media over hyping / trying to drive further wedges into western relations and opinions. Which is basically a Russian goal / propaganda tactic...
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Yeah. Its definitely not the fascism thats doing the heavy lifting here...
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I dont know about the others but all Canada did was literally just update the requirements for staying in the US for more than 30 days as per their rules. Its not a warning at all.
We SHOULD have a warning for visiting the states given the bullshit some of our travellers have faced. But thats not whats going on.
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It's what it signals that matters in this case
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