It's not about whether Ethereum is American, it's about whether Americans can use Ethereum, or in fact the citizen of any western democracy, they pretty much all have harsh sanctions against NK and Iran. The list of countries that sign up to the FATF list the author was talking about includes the whole of the G20 plus several other countries.

Also, for reference I'm not American.

The US assumes everyone is American when enforcement is concerned. Ask Kim Dotcom.

Not anymore, see lack of counter sanctions on oil buyers in India and China of Russian oil. (Even though oil buyers in China have significantly increased their purchase volume and Indian purchases of Russian oil have increased 3100%, not a typo, YoY)

Of course Washington doesn't want to give the Russian, Chinese, and Indian establishments common cause against the US.

The complexities and intricacies of geopolitics (which is both driven and impacted by history, culture, school of taught, incentives,.. etc) are literally like a DC Comic Movie in the minds of some people with United States being the superhero world police who will crush evil with a mighty army and restore democracy and peace throughout the world..

That's not a very good example.

What happened to Dotcom is fairly normal in the case where someone in country X is doing something that violates similar laws in both country X and country Y, more of the damages are occurring in country Y than in country X, and X and Y have extradition treaties.

Yeah, people have helicopters sent overseas to flank their home after pissing off music and movie companies all the time, cmon!

I only need to assume one user or validator node is American.

Who is Etherium?

Founder of Ethereum.