• Ibex0@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m not sure how long the Chinese are going to tolerate this. They can surely seize American assets in retaliation. All because the orange guy had to replace the JCPOA Iran nuclear deal with nothing but sanctions.

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      1 year ago

      All because the orange guy had to replace the JCPOA Iran nuclear deal with nothing but sanctions.

      Biden has maintained and increased those sanctions in response to Iran maintaining and increasing their human rights abuses. This isn’t a fuck up.

      Chinese are going to tolerate this.

      Remember, China has the upper hand in trade with Russia, and extracting value from that. Iran is blending its oil with Malaysia, and so China is paying a reduced rate for contraband oil there, too.

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        1 year ago

        Oh no! Not human rights abuses!

        Better check on the US’ other partners including Saudi Arabia, Israel, France…

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          1 year ago

          I mean… yea… but Saudi Arabia is only our partner if we have Trump as president, Israel we are starting to see discussion about it. Obviously it is egregious but we don’t have enough left wing politicians to stop it just yet. And France? They aren’t even worse than the US itself! ;3

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      1 year ago

      That’s about a two hour supply of oil to the Chinese. Since it wasn’t delivered they don’t pay for it.

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          1 year ago

          Holding Congress doesn’t mean much unfortunately, when you can’t sign a treaty because one party opposes on a party line.

          Also, the Iranians simply won’t negotiate when the next guy might reinstate sanctions. The last guy screwed us.

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          1 year ago

          With Manchin and Sinema there you can’t say that they’ve had majority in the senate at least…

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          1 year ago

          They cant keep blaming the guy thats been gone 3 years, when the new one has had a trifecta and did nothing. Other than keep most of Trumps worst policies in place.

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            1 year ago

            I mean we have held this sanction against Iran for 40 years, Trump left the nuclear deal and we are trying to rejoin it. These newest sanctions make sense in the context of uprisings in Iran, and the nuclear deal.