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

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[–] yaroto98@lemmy.world 39 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I think they're just keeping their heads down and not poking the bear. He's already blindly striking out at imaginary percieved insults. They're just riding out the next few years and hoping to not make anything worse.

Plus, it's not their job. It's the US's job to clean up the bed they shit in.

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

Yeah, from the world's perspective, this is a problem that solves itself in a few years. Plus, the idea of 'doing something' about a country is not a very common action. The most common action is to ignore the BS best you can, focus on building up allies, and focus on building up your own country.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Matombo@feddit.org 7 points 2 days ago

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

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago

They respect other nations sovereignty plus there is a mad man with his finger on the nuke button who is very jittery.

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

The rest of the world has been trying to do something and has received threats from Trump in return.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Xi Jingping, Putin, and Trump are all having a feast with each other, meanwhile their respective countries' citizens starve. We have more in common with the average people across borders than with our own leaders.

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[–] jannaultheal@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 3 days ago

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...

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

oh, no, you misinterpreted OP

they're not wondering why nobody is helping. they're wondering why nobody is cutting them off

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 days ago

Gotcha. Well, in that case, I think everyone should be cutting off more. I want to see the US economy get decimated.

(I realize I'm coming off super aggro, but I just don't see how else everyone here is going to wake up)

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 16 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] WALLACE@feddit.uk 19 points 3 days ago

The US is already sanctioning itself through tariffs, and the rest of the crap is domestic problems.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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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[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] Today@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

I'm mostly surprised that there's been little response to the boat blasting.

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