Under that logic, France and Iran, Iraq and Libya are in the same boat. Germany and Assad must be in the same boat as well. The EU has a long history of tradin

Under that logic, France and Iran, Iraq and Libya are in the same boat. Germany and Assad must be in the same boat as well. The EU has a long history of trading with brutal regimes: is the EU now morally equivalent to the worst regimes on Earth? Germany and the UK were selling technology to the belligerents in the Iran-Iraq war, countries that used chemical weapons. Trade with a country doesn’t imply endorsement of that country’s policies. If the US takes a stand and embargoes a country, much of the rest of the world gets mad and accuses the US of meddling, then when they don’t embargo, the US gets accused of supporting policies of a specific country. There’s no way to win in the eyes of the world.