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They're using what little leverage they have, and for once, without bombing or killing people. Surprisingly rational. Still a shitty regime, especially the way they treat their own citizens, but anyways...
And how do you suppose you close an entire waterway without killing anyone? You sit in canoes with a stick and tell people to pay the toll?
It's called a blockade. And the U.S. has a long history of using it.
Which is enforced by threat of force using warships and/or troops that will ask for tolls I guess...
Do Americans think themselves better for how they treat their own citizens? Because they lock up more of their own than even North Korea.
I saw some statistic here on Lemmy the other day about how most Southern states in the US have the most like detainment or conviction or incarceration rates in the world, only followed by El Salvador.
Our government abuses our citizens so fucking much
Two things can be true at once. Telling an American they aren't allowed to criticize any government in existence because their own is also bad is asinine.
Not disagreeing, especially as of lately...
25 people were executed in the US last year. At least 975 people were executed in Iran.
The US population is about 3.7 times that of Iran.
Maybe the death penalty is a good deterrent after all. If your point is the Iranians are more liberal with how they deal with crime, I don't think that's valid.
My point is that you’re both monsters.
Dude, 95% of the Americans on here aren't the problem. MAGA isn't on Lemmy other than a few trolls.
Direct your energy at the people in power, not the random civilians you interact with.
By using this logic you can only live in an aristocracy and never a democracy.
It's called anarchism, read a book
Doing anything more would likely get more strikes from a war-hungry US administration looking for any reason to flex. At least a passive response might get some sympathy from the rest of the world...not that they'll jump up to do much even if the US does something else.
People sympathy never stopped any war
The war hasn't started yet. Remember what happened when China turned off rare earth metals?
What are you even talking about!? Nobody gives a shit if they bomb or kill people. Raising gas prices will bring more military consequences in a week than you'd get for a hundred years of genocide.
Where’s that goose meme
“And how are the using that leverage”
“HOW ARE THEY USING THAT LEVERAGE”