What can anyone do? The USA has the strongest military force in the world.
And they are being "sanctioned" by tourists avoiding going to the USA
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Also the USA has nukes. No one's going to invade us, because doing so would be a destructive act, and the final order of any armed state is to nuke its attackers. This is the same reason North Korea gets to remain its defiant self when their army could be obliterated in a few bombing runs. This isn't even counting all the non-nuclear weaponry we have. Think of that annual budget of hundreds of billions of dollars in military spending that keeps getting raised every year...
The US is already sanctioning itself through tariffs, and the rest of the crap is domestic problems.
they haven't even take poland by now, the world will act once they attack france
As a US citizen, I would expect the rest of the world not do anything - the fuck have we done for them? And even if things had been done at some point, why rock the boat now?
Let the US collapse, boycott our exports, ridicule Trump when he travels. Fuck this country, let it burn.
edit: I misunderstood. Y'all should cut us off more.
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US "allies" haven't gotten the memo yet, US enemies aren't going to interrupt America while it's killing itself and non-aligned nations don't give a shit. Human rights abuses are almost never the real reason for sanctions, just like the US didn't invade Iraq to spread democracy.
Because it is kind of an act. The US is restructuring for a strong China and the other western countries support that.
There is no way that US billionaires can be blamed for controlling politics to exploit workers but then are incapable of removing Trump.
Seems like Canada is making an impact.
It may not be official sanctions but If there’s any credence to the news, it seems like there are movements to fund more reliable trading partners. It’s tough to make an immediate impact but we’ll see over time how much we’ve screwed ourselves. Will Canadian snowbirds come back? Will China (or anyone) buy our soybeans? Will manufacturers, such as for automobiles, be able to stay in business?
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Who watches the watchman?
Why didn't the world sanction Russia over Chechnya or China over Tibet? It has to have a certain impact on everyone before they'll do anything.
There are bigger and worse threats than the USA out there, and it's more beneficial to trade with the USA than to not trade with the USA. You could rationalize that the USA might be more likely to fix itself while sanctioned, make them realize their mistakes, but you would at the same time be severely lowering the West's military capabilities in a time of eastern aggression.
Making Trump realize his mistakes? Yeah, somehow I dont see that happening...
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I'm mostly surprised that there's been little response to the boat blasting.
Nations operate under a a zero sum game. They'll never actually act unless it gets them something in return. Considering the potential risk in directly acting against the US it'd have to be a big return.
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Woah woah woah, we're not here to fix your fuck ups, that's your problem to get rid of, we're just trying to not get nuked by a pants shitting pedophile Nazi.
Letting them rot in the outcome of everything they do now. I say that is a fair amount of doing something about them.
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We're not going to liberate you. You brought this upon yourselves.