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Well, why should the US sell grain to nations whose established goal is to end our way of life? "We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us."
by GunboatDiplomat 11y ago
Well, why should the US sell grain to nations whose established goal is to end our way of life? "We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us." So let's not sell them rope. Or grain, in this case.
- hga 11y agoBecause that's a weapon to only use in a hot war? Because it's a fungible commodity in plentiful world supply, and we're better off benefiting from that trade ourselves? Because it most directly puts the lie to their claims their economic system is superior? "If it's so good, why can't you grow enough food for yourselves but have to buy it from us?"
- GunboatDiplomat 11y agoWhy is it only a weapon to use in a hot war? We don't trade with North Korea, sanction Russia, and sanction many other countries. Why shouldn't we have refused to sell the Soviets grain? That's possibly true. That they need to by grain puts lie to it, the US selling grain to them was merely secondary.
- hga 11y agoWe don't trade with North Korea We're actually still formally at war with the DPRK, something they remind us and most especially our ROK allies of all too often. The rest are sanctions that stop short of using food as a weapon.