“We will move to end all American support from the ICC, sanction your employees and associate…”
What USian support? They aren’t a member and this is the same ICC that the United States has an actual law in place to invade The Hague should a USian ever be charged.
Why should what a non-signatory objectively hostile nation says carry any weight whatsoever.
Bonus: More sanctions. We are going to reach a point where the countries and people sanctioned by the US is larger than those not. It will actually be an economic boon to be sanctioned.
Bonus: More sanctions. We are going to reach a point where the countries and people sanctioned by the US is larger than those not. It will actually be an economic boon to be sanctioned.
In part it is already like this. Russia has grown since the sanctions and so did a few country that never applied them.
On the contrary a country like mine (italy) that applied the sanctions against Russia and Iran less than half heartedly (we historically have good relations with both) due to let’s call neighbourhood pressure has suffered from it.
Now, one could argue that our economy was problematic since the 80s, and I hear u, but shooting ourselves in the foot is not helping.
P.s. I hope that what I wrote is not a mess writing in a second language before morning coffee is tough. :)
My country (Japan) is in the same boat. Russia is obviously very close to us and was a huge exporter for: parts that keeps our auto industry going, seafood, and natural gas. Not only did we follow along in sanctions because our masters told us to, we did it right after shutting down almost all our nuclear power plants. Meaning our only domestic sources of power are…old coal plants.
The only person really losing out in that exchange is us, Russia didn’t need us as much as needed them.
it’s gonna end in a downfall-like scene where whoever’s presinald at the time is in the oval office screaming at his aides to sanction minnesota and colorado, only to be told that they cant, because minnesota and colorado have already sanctioned the white house…
“We will move to end all American support from the ICC, sanction your employees and associate…”
What USian support? They aren’t a member and this is the same ICC that the United States has an actual law in place to invade The Hague should a USian ever be charged.
Why should what a non-signatory objectively hostile nation says carry any weight whatsoever.
Bonus: More sanctions. We are going to reach a point where the countries and people sanctioned by the US is larger than those not. It will actually be an economic boon to be sanctioned.
In part it is already like this. Russia has grown since the sanctions and so did a few country that never applied them.
On the contrary a country like mine (italy) that applied the sanctions against Russia and Iran less than half heartedly (we historically have good relations with both) due to let’s call neighbourhood pressure has suffered from it.
Now, one could argue that our economy was problematic since the 80s, and I hear u, but shooting ourselves in the foot is not helping.
P.s. I hope that what I wrote is not a mess writing in a second language before morning coffee is tough. :)
My country (Japan) is in the same boat. Russia is obviously very close to us and was a huge exporter for: parts that keeps our auto industry going, seafood, and natural gas. Not only did we follow along in sanctions because our masters told us to, we did it right after shutting down almost all our nuclear power plants. Meaning our only domestic sources of power are…old coal plants.
The only person really losing out in that exchange is us, Russia didn’t need us as much as needed them.
it’s gonna end in a downfall-like scene where whoever’s presinald at the time is in the oval office screaming at his aides to sanction minnesota and colorado, only to be told that they cant, because minnesota and colorado have already sanctioned the white house…