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| ▲ | vikramkr 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | You'd just invert it. Make it so you have to be approved under export controls as a customer like they were gonna do for mythos (and like how mythos sort of still works) and make it an allowlist instead of a denylist | |
| ▲ | awesome_dude 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | If that company is acting in defiance of sanctions, like any other company that acts as a middleman to circumvent sanctions, and it is caught, it will face severe consequences. There's no gotcha here, companies the world over could just ignore any sanctions they wanted, and some try to, but they do so knowing they themselves are (potentially) breaking local and international laws. You might have well asked "what if a company helps you by importing contraband instead of you doing it directly" | | |
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| ▲ | Qiu_Zhanxuan 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | None of them are breaking local and international laws by doing so, unless a country's ruling says other countries laws supersede their own | | |
| ▲ | awesome_dude 19 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | One of the key reasons that a country like the USA can enforce sanctions is that it can tell other countries that if their companies/citizens/etc break the sanctions, then the USA will put restrictions on those countries ability to trade with the USA, which is why only a few countries will trade with Iran, North Korea, and Russia | | |
| ▲ | nmfisher 15 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | At some point those countries will also tire of the USA trying to tell them what to do and will tell the USA politely to fuck off. This is basically what India did with US sanctions on Russia and Iran. Given the USA has completely torched its reputation amongst allies in the space of a year, I would expect this to happen more often. | |
| ▲ | throwaway2037 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Exactly right. The term I use is "economic network effect". Does anyone know why does the US allows Canada to trade with Cuba? That one always stood out to me as a bit odd. My guess: Canada is the largest trade partner with the US, so the US probably has more to lose by sanctioning Canada. |
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| ▲ | cowlevel 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yes, that's called a treaty, or a trade agreement. Remember all the fuss about Investor/State Dispute Settlement clauses? Most countries have them with each other by now. | | |
| ▲ | awesome_dude 19 hours ago | parent [-] | | To add to this, if the provider suspects that a customer is facilitating sanction busting, or could reasonably be expected to have foreseen it, that's enough for a discussion with lawyers... |
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| ▲ | LtWorf 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Lol what consequences? Such shell companies can appear by the thousands every hour. Even if you ban 2 or 3 it doesn't matter. | | |
| ▲ | awesome_dude 19 hours ago | parent [-] | | Funny, sanctions have successfully applied to countries such as Russia, Iran, etc for decades... They do try workarounds, and when those are caught there are consequences You can sit back down now. Edit: Is there going to be more "laws can be broken so let's not bother" arguments, because that's lame and boring | | |
| ▲ | graemep 19 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > sanctions have successfully applied to countries such as Russia, Iran, etc for decades. Largely because other countries are willing to go along with it, and to the extent they are willing to do so. Even NATO countries import Russian gas. The UK rolled back sanctions on Russia to import diesel earlier this year. Most of the rest of the world did not impose effective sanctions and lots of people trade with them (including huge economies like China). The rest of the world is to dependent on China to want to get involved. The US might succeed in the current administrations attempt to split the world into new cold war spheres of influence (because people are scared of China too) but its not going to be easy, it will be painful, and its not going to get many countries to completely agree to what the US wants. | |
| ▲ | LtWorf 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > They do try workarounds, and when those are caught there are consequences Lol. Yeh we can all see how well the sanctions worked on Russia and Iran. Thanks for proving my point! | | |
| ▲ | awesome_dude 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | Again with the "laws are broken so let's not have them" argument. | | |
| ▲ | LtWorf 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Sanctions aren't laws. USA doesn't have universal jurisdiction. Electing someone USA doesn't like is not a crime. | | |
| ▲ | awesome_dude 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | - Sanctions aren't laws Oh my poor sweet summer child, they are. - USA doesn't have universal jurisdiction. Not sure if you understand this, but nobody said they do, but, if you have a quick browse of the threads, it has been pointed out how they ensure cooperation from other countries. - Electing someone USA doesn't like is not a crime. Show me where anybody claimed anything close to that. The truth is you've come here with a mindset based on a political ideology and that's blinded you to the objective discussion being held. Further, the fact that I keep pointing out your argument is the same as the one where people claim laws are of no use because they are routinely broken does not mean anything other than I am telling you how pathetic your claim is. Good day. |
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