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[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 44 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"US and vassal states threaten to lock Iran out of moribund economic bloc and into up and coming new one."

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 39 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (14 children)

This is hilarious because Iran is already sanctioned to hell and back. G7 really has one tool and that's it. So glad my country joined BRICS and made peace with Iran.

Reminds me of "you are only making it worse for yourself"

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[–] astreus@lemmy.ml 35 points 6 months ago (1 children)

US: Let's send weapons to our allies that are at war! Iran: We'll do the same! US: shocked Pikachu face

[–] Valmond@lemmy.ml 31 points 6 months ago (11 children)

With the litte difference that russia is a brutal dictatorship who invaded a sovereign country and Iran is a brutal dictatorship too.

But I guess it's the same anyway, right?

[–] ToxicDivinity@hexbear.net 42 points 6 months ago

USA doesn't give a fuck about other countries sovereignty when it goes murdering across the globe

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 42 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

invaded a sovereign country

Thank god my wholesome democracy would never do that over and over again for my entire life, otherwise I might have to think about who they tell me the bad guys are.

Also Ukraine is not a sovereign country. We stole their sovereignty ten years ago when we replaced their government with nazis.

[–] TeddyKila@hexbear.net 37 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Did you know that the United States Army trained midwifery to locals in Iraq?

Google "Fallujah Babies" for more details!

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 months ago

what a terrible day to have google goggles

[–] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 36 points 6 months ago

BURGUERMIND

[–] dRLY@lemmy.ml 32 points 6 months ago

The US is constantly and historically the ones propping up dictators all over the world. AND we have done it while people of those nations have either legitimately voted for the opposite, and/or were fighting for their freedom from colonial powers/dictators. We actively fund and create false narratives inside nations that we don't like to start color revolutions. We force other nations into backing brutal sanctions if they don't want us to go after them and to be allowed to trade with us. Our military is literally installed all over the globe, but we claim nations like China are somehow being "aggressive" for even patrolling their own areas. We create and groom evil and gaslight the world that we are somehow just allowed to police the globe. Fuck yourself.

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 31 points 6 months ago

So genocide is okay if committed by a democracy?

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 25 points 6 months ago

Between Russia, Iran, and Ukraine, only two still have elections, and yet the one without is the one that isn't a dictatorship?

[–] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 22 points 6 months ago

Russia joined a civil war in progress on the morally correct side

which the CIA said was going to happen if NATO kept expanding, back in 2008

[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

All liberal "democracies" are brutal capitalist dictatorships.

At least Iran and Russia's interests are aligned with most of the world against imperial core countries.

[–] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Wtf did I just read? Have you ever been to Russia or any of the post-soviet block republic? Or are you just fantasizing from other side of the world?

[–] kookaburra@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago

I'm at Russia right now, I've been to Ukraine more than dozen times including twice to Crimea (Ukrainian at time of visit) and numerous times to Donbass (as Donetsk is literally hometown of my father). What's next? Have you ever been to one of the listed places yourself or are you just fantasizing from other side of the world?

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[–] naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago
[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 34 points 6 months ago
[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 29 points 6 months ago

All bark, no bite.

[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Lol they still haven't learned that sanctioning these massive countries just backfires

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It doesn't though. Raising costs by forcing a country to dodge sanctions is very effective. A supply will never entirely dry up, but it will shrink and become more expensive, and that's enough.

[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (10 children)

So far sanctioning Russia and China has mainly just sped up the Global South's economic integration and China's becoming self-sufficient. I can see this happening with Iran too since its economy is already somewhat Global South-oriented.

Though of course, sanctioning less developed countries like Cuba, Venezuela, DPRK, and Afganistan does successfully greatly harm their working-class population, and it has.

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[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago

I think it's a sanction on Iran, which... how much trade is really going between Europe and Iran

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