• xuxebiko@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Why is Russia allowed to hold the world hostage? Who right do they have to starve people in other countries?

    Every nation should kick Russians out, block their accounts, and sanction Russia.

    • GuyFi@lemmy.sdf.org
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      They aren’t, but they just can do that. International politics is reallllly anarchistic because how the fuck do you arrest a country. Say if the U.S decided to just stop exporting anything at all- no more food and other stuff- all you could really do is just tell them pwese downt doo that, we need the foweign aiwd :3 This also assumes your the leader of a powerful country, which is a rather difficult position to get to.

      In essence, get fucked international politics go brrrrr

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        Except that isn’t remotely true. For example we can set up trade embargos and cut Russia off from all trade under US sphere of influence so they’ll only be able to trade with Brazil India Iran and China. We can also seize foreign owned assets owned by Russians in western nations. More aggressively we can send US/NATO war ships to Ukraine to provide an armed escort for Ukrainian ships carrying grain in order to ensure that shipments do not delay.

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          I wonder if trade embargo would actually even work anymore if enough big corporations just decide to not care about it like some have done with sanctions.

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      Yeah and why don’t we put em in re-education camps while were at it! That’ll teach those dirty Russians /s

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      Don’t worry, kicking subhuman Russians has already became a pass time activity in most post-soviet countries.

      Also Turkey should easily uphold the grain deal, since Russian ships are even afraid to leave the ports