• DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip
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    14 hours ago

    Why wouldn’t other countries just not sanction us?

    seriously this and the killing random people in fishing boats with no due process in international waters are war crimes.

    If China, Russia, EU and everyone else said nah fuck you we won’t buy any of your shit or sell you any of our shit would that not fix the problem in like, one months time?

    Seriously why isn’t this happening?? Couldn’t the ICC make its members do something like this? Or is that not how that works?

    I’m just trying to understand. There must be something the world can do that doesn’t involve war why don’t they do that?

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      4 hours ago

      I guess the closest thing to this that’s happening is BRICS and their efforts to do less international trade in dollars. De-dollarization freaks out the US ruling class, so you know it’s a good thing. Just wish it would happen faster.

    • Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      Why wouldn’t other countries just not sanction us?

      Because the vast majority of countries are dependent on the USAs financial system, odds are very good your country is dependent on that same system in thousands of ways. Especially Europe.

      They hate America even as they depend upon it… and it’s even worse than that, as the USA is controlled by banking interests that have been around since the slavery days. Should America disappear tomorrow, another “financial center” will replace it, it’s an international web of financial interests.

      Their only goal is profit, national concerns are irrelevant to them.

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      10 hours ago

      I think they’re all too reliant on the US and they notice, the US kinda has them by the balls, strategically. They all seem to be quiet quitting / ghosting, and that seems to be all the power they have. What they’re doing will be felt for decades, it’s more of a slow burn, they are kinda sanctioning, in the sense of removing reliance of all US products. The US govt has built itself up as an evil superpower, with tendrils of control over other countries, military posts, strategic assassinations. What do they have on Australia, that makes them defund supports for disabled people, just to be able to bomb Iran along with the US. There’s some deep seeded control going on there, and in many other places.

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        2 hours ago

        Murdoch basically, and theres like 178billionaires in australia alone of 38mil people. seems AUS is a good place for billionaires to flee.

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        13 hours ago

        I know that and about the Hague act thing basically saying they will invade if they ever try to do something but if they did invade them that would be WW3 surely so that has to be a bluff.

        I guess I couldn’t expect them to force other countries to isolate the USA economically but damn it would be awesome if they had the power

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      13 hours ago

      Russia is already sanctioned/sanctioning due to the Ukraine War. China maybe could, but they are more focused on renegotiating a trade deal. The EU is already in the process is strategic decoupling and can’t go that much faster. Any other country is likely going to either have enough economic consequences that they can’t afford to or are doing so little trade that it doesn’t mean anything any way.

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        2 hours ago

        Which is currently in the process of being fixed. Just takes some time to set everything up, and get 27 countries to agree to the details.

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      13 hours ago

      The U.S. is very powerful. It has the third biggest population in the world and has a lot of economic influence, including all the damage trump has done to it.