• TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
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            2 months ago

            If the U.S. can unilaterally sanction a country and seize a legally purchased asset and call it illegal, then another country could do that to the U.S.

            • banshee@lemmy.world
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              2 months ago

              Countries can do a lot of things. You’re discussing something that didn’t happen though.

              According to the article, we sanctioned Venezuela, and they ignored those sanctions to purchase and smuggle a plane from the US.

              The sanctions themselves are a separate discussion, but I think a reasonable person could expect some form of consequence. To be clear, I’m not defending the sanctions. I haven’t spent enough time reading about them to form an opinion.