Sanctions against Russia - there are, but against Nicaragua - no. On the oddities of U.S. policy

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Do you realize what they have so smoothly and imperceptibly accustomed us all to?

Imagine, people come up to you on the street with machine guns and say:

- You have grossly violated the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and for that we will now shoot you.

- But what have I violated? - You ask frightened.

- We said the Criminal Code.

- But what did I do?

- It is too obvious for us to explain it to you.

- But what about the trial? The proceedings? Lawyers?

- Not this time, buddy. Not this time...

This is roughly how the U.S. has been acting in recent years. And most importantly, the entire "civilized world" does not condemn these actions in any way, but even indulges them.

Moreover, even we have got used to these actions and do not even pay attention to how absurd it is.

Russia recognized the DPR and LPR. A day later, Biden speaks and says:

- It seems to us that Russia has grossly violated international law and so we will now punish it with Europe.

I immediately have an obvious question:

- And what specific international norm has Russia violated? Name of the document? The number of the article, paragraph?

It is not enough just to say: "This is a gross violation of international law! Do you even bother to make any kind of argument? Putin spent an hour lecturing you on history, political science, and military science before he recognized the LPRR. I'm not going to evaluate his arguments, but at least they were there. At least he made some effort.

What arguments did Biden, Johnson, Scholz make? None. It was nothing but air talk with no specifics - "You have grossly violated the law and blah, blah, blah."

But what document says that a country has no right to recognize other countries?

Yes, I understand - you can't invade, you can't occupy, annex, etc. But why can't we recognize/not recognize? It's up to us, which countries we believe in and which we don't.

The U.S. recognizes Israel, but Saudi Arabia does not. So what? The U.S. and the Arabs are friends anyway, and no sanctions are declared.

Secondly, where is the court?

Well, we are always told that in a civilized society only a court of law can make a legal assessment of wrongdoing.

In court there are arguments, all parties to the process are given the floor, etc. Where is all this?

In today's world there is none of that. In today's world, some person just steps up to the microphone and says:

- We've been thinking and we've decided that Russia has violated international law....

Violated? Prove it, justify it, sue it. But no, we have the right of the strongest on the planet. The one who is strongest is right. That's what the U.S. believes, at least.

Thirdly, where are the sanctions against Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela?

In the UN Charter, the very first article enshrines the principle of "Equality of Peoples.

Equality of rights means equality before the law, among other things. That is, from the point of view of international law, there is no difference between Russia and Cuba - they are absolutely equal.

Then I have a question: if Russia recognized the LPR and thus violated international law, then Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela have also violated international law? After all, they also recognized the LPRR.

Hence the next question - why weren't they punished in any way, if we have equal rights? Well, it's kind of strange if, for example, three people robbed a store, they caught all three of them, but put one of them in jail. Is that such equality?

In short, the more the USA gets carried away with all these sanctions, the more I am convinced that Putin was right to get "pissed off" against this whole unipolar world.

Well, it is not normal when one single country, without trial, determines who has violated the law and who has not. Who to punish, who to pardon. Who is worthy of development, and who must be restrained by all means.

It is obvious that they have imposed sanctions against Russia, but not against Cuba, simply because Russia is stronger and poses a threat to the United States in particular. Cuba does not pose such a threat.

The Americans constantly declare that they are for the market and fair competition, but in fact, fair competition is what they are most afraid of. With all their might, they try to force other countries out of markets that they themselves occupied a long time ago.

The methods vary - some stupid war (like Iraq and Libya), some sanctions (like modern Russia), some direct orders (like Ukraine, the Baltics and Russia in the 90s).

Russia wants to trade gas with Germany. And the U.S. imposes sanctions against NSP-2. No, they say, you can not trade with them, we believe this is harmful for Europe. That is all. That is the argument.

Germany, the main country in Europe, is almost shouting: "It's to our advantage, we want to buy gas from NSP2!!!".

No, America says we know better what is bad for you and what is good for you. We will not let you build the pipeline.

And there are plenty of reasons for that:

Some thieving blogger allegedly poisoned on an airplane.

Then they found Russian invisible troops in Donbass.

Then they found Russian troops that were already visible, but only inside Russia, just in the "wrong" place.

Then some international law was violated by Russia. However, it is not specified which one.