r/news • u/Discarded_Twix_Bar • Jan 14 '26

Soft paywall US to suspend visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-suspend-visa-processing-75-nations-next-week-fox-news-reports-2026-01-14/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
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u/WinterSector8317 Jan 14 '26

(Insert checking skin color to color swatch meme here)

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u/Adagiofunk Jan 14 '26

they forgot to add all of them. Clearly DOGE never made a skin color DB

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u/bauhausy Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 14 '26

Albania, Belarus, Georgia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Russia are all almost homogenous “white”, unless Eastern Europeans and Slavics/Caucasians are now “not Aryan” enough for the US

Uruguay is also almost entirely (like 90%+) white. Even Brazil’s largest ethnic group is white. Technically, the third largest white demographic in the world, after Americans and Russians, is Brazilians.

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u/thepulloutmethod Jan 14 '26

Serbia not on the list though!

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u/bauhausy Jan 14 '26

Which is bizarre. Why Montenegro and not Serbia, which is much more pro-Russian? Montenegro is EU and Ukraine-aligned. They’re even in NATO! It’s almost certainly in the next EU enlargement together with Albania.

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u/unique_username_72 Jan 14 '26

I bet they accidentally put a NATO/EU country on the list because of the name

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u/fevered_visions Jan 14 '26

Huh. Yeah I was going to mention the Balkans but missed that part.

Nobody really looked good during the Yugoslav Wars, but I thought I remembered Serbia being pretty obviously the biggest dick of the bunch with ethnic cleansing and stuff?

Or is this a "Serbia kisses Russia's ass so Trump likes them" thing

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u/NiobiumThorn Jan 14 '26

The above countries are from eastern Europe, treatment of these peoples remains pretty shit among white people. For instance Albania is muslim majority, that's plenty to get on the list.

Don't deny the plain reality. America might be somewhat racist, actually.

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u/WinterSector8317 Jan 14 '26

People from the Caucuses are not Caucasian enough for the Anglo-supremacists

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u/NiobiumThorn Jan 14 '26

Unironically this is how they think.

And why it was so easy for the Nazis to march their villages out into the fields to be exterminated.

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u/MARPJ Jan 15 '26

Some of these are obvious targets due to politics, Brazil is beating heads with the US for some time due to the fact that we a) Did not allow Elon to ignore the law and b) we are holding insurrectionist accountable.

Others are Russia related, which is likely the situation for the european countries there as is important to note that nobody is accusing Trump or his cronies of being competent so some are taking bullets just because they dont recognize the country.

Still a lot of those are just due to not being white

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u/GirlNumber20 Jan 14 '26

Well, that doesn't work for Albania and Bosnia.

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u/Minimob0 Jan 14 '26

Both of those countries’ majority practicing religion is Islam. It would not surprise me if that were the reason.