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You don't have to wonder. The usa did invade irak against the vote of the UN and while lying about WMD. Nothing happened.
by BiteCode_dev 5y ago
You don't have to wonder. The usa did invade irak against the vote of the UN and while lying about WMD. Nothing happened.
- horsawlarway 5y agoI would disagree that nothing happened. If anything, I'd say that Bin Laden actually mostly met his goals here - He mired the US in an unpopular and horrendously expensive set of wars, that made a LOT of everyday Americans much more mindful of the military industrial machine that is the US state (and I say that as an American). Not to mention we're seeing a more clear decline in US influence abroad because of it. Did we face a similar set of retaliatory sanctions? No, but that's because the cost/reward structure is hugely different. It's hard to sanction the largest economy in the world, which owns and prints the currency most of the world uses as its reserve, and which is also the military backer that has mostly kept Europe from becoming another series of land wars after WW2. Thats... just so significantly different from the challenges present with sanctioning Russia. Even this discussion about the internet - The ICANN is an american company. Hell - well more than half the sites people want to take action here are American companies. If you tried to saction the US by cutting off their internet... are you sanctioning the US or yourself?