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All the much more sweeter when they get it. The list of countries America tells other countries to treat poorly is getting kinda long. So I could actually rat
by daniel-cussen 4y ago
All the much more sweeter when they get it.
The list of countries America tells other countries to treat poorly is getting kinda long.
So I could actually rattle them off the top of my head once:
Myanmar
Sudan
Iran
North Korea
Cuba
That last one is a funny one, the original pariah. But like you can't go to these countries for contests, or accept prize money there, so for instance the Rubik's Cube championship can't be in Cuba, because Americans who are damned good at it can't win.
And it wasn't a very large amount of land. Sudan yeah, that was the biggest country in Africa before it split. But it was remote from where I was in Chile, much more than half the world away. Never met a Sudanese, nothing.
Now it's like Belarus, Russia, China soon, North Korea, Cuba always always, South Sudan, uh, Yemen, there's more...Libya for a while, like EVERYONE EVERYONE IS SANCTIONED.
When everybody's sanctioned, nobody's sanctioned. America is sanctioned.
- halJordan 4y agoThis is a pretty ironic view. What you're regretting losing only ever existed during the unipolar moment anyway. The era preceding it was literally called the Cold War. Emphasis on War. Now that the unipolar moment is ending you're blaming America for sticking to its guns and refusing to do business with countries that agitate for its downfall or destruction?