The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed legislation giving Donald Trump broad powers to impose sanctions on Russia and tariffs of up to 100% on countries that buy Russian oil and gas. It will now go to Trump to be signed into law.
The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed legislation giving Donald Trump broad powers to impose sanctions on Russia and tariffs of up to 100% on countries that buy Russian oil and gas. It will now go to Trump to be signed into law.
The double standard of USA is insane, USA is a despicable country reserving rights to punish others for what they do themselves.
Also USA should now b sanctioned by the rest of the world for doing exactly what they demand others don’t. USA is a traitor to their allies, and that should not go unpunished.
A pariah USA is the future that is on the cards.
This has been true for some time, it’s just that with Trump it’s gone to another level.
I agree but how does that punishment get played out? Like if we manage to kick the fascists out, and rebuild a semblance of of a society, how do we pay reparations to the entire world? I mean we can grind up the billionaires and give people their money but we have $40 TRILLION in debt. There’s not paying that back.
What is a mechanism of punishment for a society who so plainly doesn’t give a shit about anyone outside their borders?
I don’t think the US will ever pay reparations in any form to its (nominal) allies, nor be asked to.
Instead, the US will lose (or has already lost) all goodwill and soft power it has enjoyed post WWII, and will have to face skeptic if not openly hostile nations in all diplomatic affairs, forcing it to make significant concessions if it hopes to have any sort of alliance and agreement in the future.
Plus, hopefully, the EU and many other countries will realise the mistake of relaying on the US for strategic assets, in particular defense, finance and tech, which will have a significant impact on the US economy long term.
Not respecting US patents would be huge.
Nationalize and publicise the research data and other intellectual property of the large corps. That could be helpful.
The US still hasn’t made reparations internally, my tribe for instance was promised a voting member of congress over 100 years ago who still hasn’t been seated… Native Americans didn’t even get the right to vote until the 1970s.
I wouldn’t hold your breath for any of the countries doing bullshit to ever atone for anything.
Unfortunately this is the most likely scenario.