• Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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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