Ukraine war: G7 threatens sanctions if Iran sends Russia ballistic missiles
Ukraine war: G7 threatens sanctions if Iran sends Russia ballistic missiles
Among the steps that have been discussed is ending national airline Iran Air’s flights to Europe.
"US and vassal states threaten to lock Iran out of moribund economic bloc and into up and coming new one."
This is hilarious because Iran is already sanctioned to hell and back. G7 really has one tool and that's it. So glad my country joined BRICS and made peace with Iran.
Reminds me of "you are only making it worse for yourself"
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I like the idea of economic incentives and I think they're extremely effective, although the ones on the other end of them usually take years before they start to feel the full effects.
US: Let's send weapons to our allies that are at war! Iran: We'll do the same! US: shocked Pikachu face
With the litte difference that russia is a brutal dictatorship who invaded a sovereign country and Iran is a brutal dictatorship too.
But I guess it's the same anyway, right?
USA doesn't give a fuck about other countries sovereignty when it goes murdering across the globe
invaded a sovereign country
Thank god my wholesome democracy would never do that over and over again for my entire life, otherwise I might have to think about who they tell me the bad guys are.
Also Ukraine is not a sovereign country. We stole their sovereignty ten years ago when we replaced their government with nazis.
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The US is constantly and historically the ones propping up dictators all over the world. AND we have done it while people of those nations have either legitimately voted for the opposite, and/or were fighting for their freedom from colonial powers/dictators. We actively fund and create false narratives inside nations that we don't like to start color revolutions. We force other nations into backing brutal sanctions if they don't want us to go after them and to be allowed to trade with us. Our military is literally installed all over the globe, but we claim nations like China are somehow being "aggressive" for even patrolling their own areas. We create and groom evil and gaslight the world that we are somehow just allowed to police the globe. Fuck yourself.
So genocide is okay if committed by a democracy?
Russia joined a civil war in progress on the morally correct side
which the CIA said was going to happen if NATO kept expanding, back in 2008
Between Russia, Iran, and Ukraine, only two still have elections, and yet the one without is the one that isn't a dictatorship?
The USA is a brutal dictatorship who invaded a sovereign country. What's the difference exactly? The USA has invaded someone more recently than Russia has, and they do it a lot more often. They're also more dictatorial and more brutal. The fact that the USA is mad at Iran for supporting their enemy is completely understandable. They're not being hypocrites, it's just mafia tactics and they're not ashamed of it. What's not understandable is you or anyone saying USA sending weapons to Ukraine and Iran sending weapons to Russia are somehow not equivalent.
To be clear, I am not at all justifying or forgiving the use of sanctions, it's a barbaric form of warfare that explicitly targets non-combatants, the USA should be ashamed and their leadership jailed.
Israel
lol ok
What else can they sanction Iran feom anyway?
Ha, yes. I'm sure that will work out this time.
All bark, no bite.
Lol they still haven't learned that sanctioning these massive countries just backfires
It doesn't though. Raising costs by forcing a country to dodge sanctions is very effective. A supply will never entirely dry up, but it will shrink and become more expensive, and that's enough.
So far sanctioning Russia and China has mainly just sped up the Global South's economic integration and China's becoming self-sufficient. I can see this happening with Iran too since its economy is already somewhat Global South-oriented.
Though of course, sanctioning less developed countries like Cuba, Venezuela, DPRK, and Afganistan does successfully greatly harm their working-class population, and it has.
It's just speeding up dedollarisation at this point. Trade is increasingly done in other currencies because the US dollar is just a minefield of sanctions and regulations. The US had this power back when they produced everything people needed, but nowadays everything's coming from China, so why involve a third party in your trade that can freeze your accounts for no reason?
I think it's a sanction on Iran, which... how much trade is really going between Europe and Iran
Can we just try to get peace and stop with the escalation? I am not going to send any of my children to these wars.
Appeasing people like Putin doesn't lead to peace.
Ah, love seeing liberals always scapegoating one guy at the top instead of the capitalist system that brought them to power in the first place.
If Pootin died right now, he'd just be replaced by someone similar. Or worse, since most his real opposition currently are even more right wing than him. Unless the material reasons for this war happening in the first place aren't dealt with (ie the 2014 anti-Russia US-backed fascist coup and the subsequent killing of ethnic Russians and Eastern Ukrainians and Crimeans for resisting), nothing will change.
From a comment below
The situation in Ukraine is an inevitable escalation in the war that started in 2014 with the US-backed fascist coup in Ukraine that goes against the interests and wishes of Eastern Ukrainians
and the subsequent killings of ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine, like Donbas, DPR, and LPR, by the coup gov for resisting.
To be clear, I don't support the invasion per se. In fact, its goal of suppressing fascism in western Ukraine seems to have kinda backfired from this after all, with the Ukraine gov using this as an excuse to suppress the left.
But the point is, what else could've they done? The US had meticulously blocked off all other options over the years. Russia had already tried to join NATO multiple times from even before the USSR’s overthrow and have been denied (since it's an imperialist org whose entire purpose is to suppress socialism globally, and particularly supress Russia) and they already had the Minsk agreements which the US sidelined through the coup. Not doing something about it would lead to the continued killing of ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine by the coup gov, and NATO getting even closer to Russia since the post-2014 US puppet gov doesn’t abide by the Minsk agreements.
Just curious. Which action here are you criticising? The "giving Russia ballistic missiles"-part, right?
Ah, why didn't the world leaders think of that? Just press the "peace" button! That will stop the baddies from being bad! Just say "chill out man, we tryna get peace".
