Feel like if it was another country they’d be sanctions or something already.

  • Auli@lemmy.ca
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    Because the US is the biggest market and they’d rather make money then do the right thing.

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    The same has happened in something like 25 % of countries, and they haven’t gotten sanctioned for that.
    Most of our diamonds and cobalt and cocoa come from countries that have similar problems as USA now does.

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    Countries need to reduce their dependency on the US first:

    • The US is the strongest force within NATO, so with Russia getting more aggressive, Europe and Canada need to quickly build up a stronger army.
    • The US is NATO’s largest supplier of weapons, so Europe and Canada need to invest in their weapons industry.
    • The US is the worlds largest manufacturer of CPU’s and GPU’s. While there are non-US alternatives, these are not as good and are designed for custom build electronics rather than desktops, laptops and servers.
    • Most international payments go via the US (even a lot of international payments within Europe). Countries need to persuade their banks to find new ways to do international payments, but the current system is pretty advantages for the banks, so they are reluctant to agree.
    • Most cloud infrastructure is in the US. Other countries will need to move their data out of the US.
    • The US is a large provider of humanitarian aid, and the largest exporter of food. Poor countries will have to find a new way to get those resources.
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    Canadians are not buying America’s shit, and are unlikely to resume that habit anytime soon. It doesn’t take effect immediately, but when you compound it with the other ass backwards trade policies you’re living under now you will all be suffering greatly within a year.

    So will everyone, mind you.

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      When you make an enemy of a friend, you will have to work 7 times as hard to turn that enemy back into a friend.

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        7x if you use Newtonian classical physics. I think CERN discovered that it’s actually 9.4x harder when you account for the quantum foam. Plus in accordance with the theory of indeterminacy we might just spontaneously make trade deals with other partners.

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    they haven’t even take poland by now, the world will act once they attack france

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    Because they are too powerful as an enemy. If they were the size of denmark, they wouldnt get away with anything.

    The entire economy of the western world is also extreamly connected to the US. Our pension funds invest in their tech stocks, our financial systems use the dollar… And a lot more things that i dont even know.

    America is pretty much running the western world. Like it or not. :/

    They also spent almost all their money on weapons and high tech support systems. Their “defence” budget is larger than entire Europe.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_highest_military_expenditures

    Just look at these numbers. America, almost 1000 billion dollars. China, 300 billion, Russia 150 billion, everyone else much much less.

    Its a crazy country.

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      Its not just the Western world.

      America got to define the new world order after world war 2.

      They accrued 75% of the worlds golds reserves selling weapons to allies.

      This allowed them to peg the dollar to gold under the Breton Woods system, making their currency the global reserve currency.

      Never mind that scientists and innovators had fled from Eurasia to the US for safety, causing a massive braindrain

      This is why they say they won WW2. They were one of few countries that had circumstances tip heavily in their favour due the war.

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        Yeah.

        I have mixed feelings about it. How would the world look if it was China or Russia that managed to do that? How would Europe look?

        I have so much western propaganda in me, that i cant judge how Russia or China would be. But looking at their current actions, its hard to see them being peaceful. America is also not peaceful though.

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    We’re doing what we can, I personally boycott US products as much as I can.

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    Trump has inspired more trade side deals between countries than any US President in history. It will take 5-10 years to notice but it cannot be reversed and the US will feel the result of an isolationist economy like once Great Britain.

    Canada is signing new trade deals every month with not the USA.

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    Unfortunately by sanctioning the US, they would be sanctioning themselves. The world just needs to wait for the orange madman to destroy the US economy, which is well on the way.

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      I think part of the issue being brought up here is

      1. Yes but our policies impact the world stage a lot
      2. a majority of the people here didn’t bring it upon themselves
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    They respect other nations sovereignty plus there is a mad man with his finger on the nuke button who is very jittery.