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No, refusing to trade with an adversary nation isn't bullying.
by some_random 5mo ago
No, refusing to trade with an adversary nation isn't bullying.
- nso 5mo agoPunishing others for trading with another nation is bullying.
- reillyse 5mo agoIt's been established many times in this thread that the US is not just refusing to trade but 1) Forcing trading partners to also not trade 2) Physically boarding and seizing ships that are attempting to go to the island with cargos of oil. Yet you just keep repeating the stuff about it being just about not trading with the US.
- akramachamarei 5mo agoOn the contrary, this statement about force and boarding has been repeated and also countered numerous times. For one, I've yet to see the "forced" claim elaborated. Leveraging retaliatory tariffs is not an act of force--that is the only "force" action I've seen mentioned so far. Furthermore, the boarding and seizing has been credibly described as a police action to enforce false flag laws, i.e. maritime impersonation.
- culi 5mo agoThis is a blockade. It's explicit in Trump's executive order. Blows my mind how many americans don't or don't care that the explicit goal here is to starve human beings. It's literally a crime against humanity. One that only the US can get away with
- M95D 5mo agoWhat adversary? They're in the stone age.