Thursday, August 02, 2018
Thought on sanctions
This has undoubtedly been said before, but I haven't read it...
In earlier times our blockades were direct, instructing our own companies and people to avoid dealing with the "bad" country. Cuba was a classic example. Before Castro, Cuba was practically a US state. We had constant trade and travel, importing sugar and exporting gangsters and crime. Castro kicked out the gangsters, so we blockaded the sugar. Our own sugar industry suffered. This was a proper DIRECT blockade.
Our modern sanctions are always indirect. We never blockade a country that we actually trade with. Russia and US have never been active trade partners, before or during or after the Soviet era. Our exports are the same, so there was never a good reason for trade. We never had significant trade with Persia, though we did have a lot of technical and military cooperation before we stirred up the 1979 revolution. We never had trade with North Korea, except for the bombs we exported in 1950 to destroy the country.
These recent sanctions don't affect USA STRONG corporations. All the pressure and all the punishment goes to Europe and China. We are EXTORTING Europe into doing our dirty work for us.
Europe has decided that it no longer wants to be our hitman. If we want to destroy innocent countries for no reason except the evil voices in our own monstrous head, we'll have to do it on our own.
Labels: infinite infinite infinite infinite lunacy, switchover
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