The US is threatening secondary sanctions against states that don’t impose sanctions on Iran, including allies such as the UK, France, Germany.

HarryLime [any] · 4 years ago

The US is threatening secondary sanctions against states that don’t impose sanctions on Iran, including allies such as the UK, France, Germany.

DrChillgood [none/use name] · edit-2 4 years ago

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emizeko [they/them] · edit-2 4 years ago

it's pretty funny to watch the US attempt to use soft power it no longer has

ARVSPEX [none/use name] · 4 years ago

I mean, they have already had some degree of success when it comes to hampering the completion of Nord Stream 2 by using the same tactics.

Nord Stream 2, which was originally scheduled to start delivering gas from Russia to Western Europe toward the end of 2019, is almost completed. Of a total of 2,360 kilometers (1,466 miles), 2,200 kilometers of the pipeline have been laid. But work came to a standstill in December, following a US sanctions law, which exerted enormous pressure on pipe-laying company Allseas, headquartered in Switzerland. The firm decided to withdraw its specialized ships from the project. German Left party MP Klaus Ernst, who heads the parliamentary Economic Committee, knows how much pressure had been exerted, citing letters that two US senators had sent to Allseas' CEO last December. The policymakers threatened to freeze all assets of Allseas in the US, stop all of its transactions through US banks and withdraw the visas of all employees, should the company not stop its involvement in Nord Stream 2.

And because apparently they felt they did not yet sufficiently sound like a criminal outfit...

The US argues that the pipeline will increase Europe's dependence on Russia, which both Berlin and Moscow dispute. The US proposes selling European's American natural gas shipped across the Atlantic as an alternative. The senators said the letter served as "formal legal notice," and demanded that Faehrhafen Sassnitz, which is owned by the town of Sassnitz and the state of Mecklenburg Western Pomerania, "cease activities" supporting the construction of the pipeline, or face "potentially fatal measures" that will cut the port's commercial and financial ties with the US.

companero [he/him] · 4 years ago

I wish the Non-Aligned Movement would set up their own economic bloc and embargo the US. Imagine the coffee shortages.

Esoteir [he/him] · 4 years ago

sir, i want you to sit down and think about all of the new yorkers who will be thanos-snapped away the moment they open their coffee can and a cartoon fly buzzes out

still funny? i thought not

PeanutButter [he/him] · edit-2 3 years ago

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Deadparrotsociety [none/use name] · edit-2 4 years ago

do it you cowards.

edit- my dude beat me to it but i get points for punctuation, you animals.

Lerios [hy/hym] · 4 years ago

do it you cowards

Lovely_sombrero [he/him] · 4 years ago

Pompeo was threatening Iran with the US starting to uphold UN sanctions...... that the UN itself voted against... This would include seizing Iranian tankers. He could be looking to start a war before the election.

SerLava [he/him] · 4 years ago

LINE GO DOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNN

comrade_24 [she/her] · edit-2 4 years ago

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mrbigcheese [he/him] · edit-2 4 years ago

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