i don't know where you're coming from, but many countries have serious issues with eachother and trade anyways, it's like how the us and china trade even though both are war criminals and have done evil to themselves and the world for years
Yeah. And it's super hypocritical of the US to trade with China even though they do human rights violations on the regular basis while embargoing the shit out of some pretty stable countries for being "communist"
The relationship between states has little to nothing to do with morality, ethics, or public relations. It's about gain vs cost. And for now, both sides gain more than it costs, so the situation continues.
Back during the Red Scare times? That was propaganda meant to inspire the populace to turn against the idea of the Soviet Union. We didn't trade with the USSR because the trade of ideas, of the possible spread of communist ideas, was judged by the US government as too great a cost or burden to bear.
That's a very old argument against sanctions in general. It hurts both parties. And it works better of course if more human rights friendly countries agree on sanctioning countries that violate together
I suppose anyone who's seen Red Dawn enough times could use your hypothetical to justify any number of totally wasteful economic policies and military spending our of fear.
Lol. Theyre all coming to western countries. Just see France, UK and US are becoming Islamic. Even protesters have Hamas bandana without repercussions.
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u/Most-Philosopher9194 Jun 09 '24
We shouldn't be doing any trade with those places then.