The whole idea of sanctions is to isolate your enemy by giving incentives to keep 3rd parties from engaging with your enemy. But what if no one cooperates?
What if your allies keep doing business with your enemy? What if you are forced to sanction your allies? If that happens, who is the one being isolated?
It didn't get much attention in the American press, but an important event happened in the skies over Syria last month.
Yep! I agree. Glenn Greenwald:
Last week the Trump Administration announced that it was boosting the Marine Corps Expeditionary Units in East Asia to counter Chinese aggression.
The Democrats and news media screamed "collusion" when the Trump Administration declined to impose new Russian sanctions, but you probably didn't hear the actual reasons why Trump said "no".
Last Friday U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned Mexico that Putin was hiding under their beds.
Once upon a time, there were journalists. But Satan appeared in his red cloak and horns, casting a curse upon almost all of them. Henceforward, they would become his slaves. No, they did not receive their official set of red cloak and horns, but they were rewarded with sizable paychecks. But with the riches came madness, one in which we alligators and neurosturgeons have labelled RDS. No, it's not RSD (really stupid Dimocrats).
Finally, some election "hacking" that sounds legitimate.
Who knew that President Obama, in comparison to The Donald, was a pacifist.
Ah! Scary Putin in Mexico!
