Re:America’s aggressive use of sanctions endangers the dolla...
by catalogia on Saturday January 18, 2020 @08:43PM
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You make it sound like it would genuinely be in Germany's interest to not have a pipeline with Russia. Americans are no more rational than Germans, so if what you say is true, where is the harm in letting Germans make their own decisions rather than having Americans make those decisions for them?
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Re:America’s aggressive use of sanctions endangers the dolla...
by AmericanChopper on Saturday January 18, 2020 @09:11PM
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The word “sanctions” just describes a set of decisions that a sanctioning country can make. Any country is free to make any decision it wants to. If one country doesn’t like the decisions that another country makes, they can sanction them whereby the sanctioning country makes decisions about how it’s going to interact with the sanctioned country and typically how it will interact with other countries that also interact with the sanctioned country. The effectiveness of any sanction is determined exclusively by how much other countries want whatever it is that the sanctioning country has to offer. Liechtenstein has every right to start sanctioning the USA if it wants to, but it would have to first assess what would happen if it forced the world to choose between it and the USA.
Re:America’s aggressive use of sanctions endangers the dolla...
by labawi on Sunday January 19, 2020 @07:54AM
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Not saying Americans are right to impose, but as a neighbor European and an Earth citizen I do believe it would be in our collective interest not to create additional pipelines to Russia, or anywhere else for that matter.
Germany should build some HVDC or regular long-distance transmission lines so they can use their wind electricity without routing through neighbors and build more wind farms.