• NateNate60
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    1 year ago

    I hate that “confirmation bias” have become moo words with people nowadays.

    The logic is pretty sound:

    • A company that does business in the United States must comply with American laws.
    • It is forbidden under American law for a company that operates from the United States to do business with Iran.
    • The company, through its child, shipped oil from Iran.
    • American authorities, enforcing American law, ordered the company to divert the ship and turn over the oil for confiscation because the shipment was illegal.
    • Oil is confiscated.

    I remark that sanctions do not require the approval of the United Nations. Under customary international law, it is an application of sovereign authority. Any country can apply sanctions and can do so in any way you like. What the USA has said is that “if you want to do business here, we forbid you from doing business with Iran”.

    • frunch@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I appreciate you going the distance with that guy. I don’t think they changed their mind, nor do I think they have the capacity to. You certainly kept it on level for us in the peanut gallery though. Cheers!

    • TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      You owe me $250 million for using the word “moo.” I sanctioned you 5 hours ago, without your knowledge or approval. You have to do what I want, because I have a bigger stick. I can make up whatever law or sanction I want, and you have to follow it or I’ll destroy your town. Pretzel logic. Call it confirmation bias or sucking your own dick, but that’s what is going on.

      • NateNate60
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        1 year ago

        I wasn’t aware that you were a sovereign state or that I had any money deposited in your banks or that I do business of any sort with you.

        You can sanction me by putting a permanent embargo on conversing with me by blocking me if you want

        • TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          It was an analogy. I don’t want to block you. I want to have an intelligent discussion about the merits of this act. But people just want to defend America despite its despotic acts. It makes me sad.

          • legion02@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            The analogy is closer to you getting banned by a lemmy instance for breaking their rules when replying to comments from another instance. Just because you’re abroad doesn’t mean you’re ungoverned.

            • TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
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              1 year ago

              There is no governance between states.

              International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of guidelines, norms, and standards usually forming the default behavior between states. Inter means between thus outside of territories thus absent of sovereignty, thus isn’t a law at all (See: Westphalian System) and is rather a common-practice between states - unless they wish otherwise due to their own reasoning. (Source](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_law).

              • legion02@lemmy.world
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                1 year ago

                This isn’t an action between states. A US based company bought oil from Iran (hence why it’s Iranian oil, they’re referencing origin, not ownership) to sell to China. That us based company was found to be in violation of US sanctions against Iran. They capitulated because they still wish to do business in the US.