• @[email protected]
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    -61 year ago

    Yeah, we just stole a million barrels of oil and people in this thread are acting like we would have been wrong not to.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      If a company sold guns to a cartel and then the government intercepted that shipment and confiscated it. You’d not care.

      No difference here.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        It’s an entirely different scenario and even then it would depend on where the guns are coming from and where they’re going. There has so be some limit on what countries can do on the international stage.

        • @[email protected]
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          01 year ago

          There kind of is. The problem is enforcing it.

          Which the West tries and places like Iran want to circumvent it.

          America sucks and has issues but some countries out there really need to get it together. Iran is easily one of them.

          America did nothing wrong here this was legit and there was punishment for it, tried to hide transactions and go around sanctions, get caught lose your shit.

    • @assassin_aragorn
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      11 year ago

      If China had a law against shipping oil to the US, and a Chinese ship was going to ship oil to the US, would it be wrong for China to prosecute the ship owners and seize the oil?

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        The US is not prosecuting the US owners of the ship.

        If it was only technically a “Chinese ship” in that a Chinese equity firm temporarily owned the ship and they used that as an excuse to seize the cargo and prosecute the foreign operator, that would also be wrong.

    • @TokenBoomer
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      -211 year ago

      The cognitive dissonance is dizzying.

      • @[email protected]
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        01 year ago

        Look it’s the guy who brings up sovereignty but ignores Iran’s own populace doesn’t want these leaders or the fact this (illegal) trade financially supports that oppression of the people.

        Says he’s a commie yet supports the religious oppressors? No care for the will of the people

      • GodlessCommie
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        -31 year ago

        You might have to explain cognitive dissonance