• Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Of course it’s okay we sanction human rights abusers. Europe does it, too. Am I supposed to disagree with another country’s sanctions or something?

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      1 year ago

      Human rights abusers when they aren’t our allies. US has been pretty chill with Saudi Arabia and they literally dismembered someone on foreign soil because they vocally opposed the tyrannical regime.

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        1 year ago

        Saying there should be harsher treatment of SA doesn’t make the sanctions against China any less justified.

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          doesn’t make the sanctions against China any less justified.

          You just admitted you didn’t read the article.

          The sanctions were against Iran, there are no sanctions against supplying China with oil.

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            1 year ago

            You know what’s even funnier? Replace “China” with “Iran” in my comment and it still applies.

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        Saudi Arabia is allies only with our Republican governments. They have been and are going to keep effectively sanctioning us by raising the price of oil before our next election.