John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY TYLER DURDEN IN CHECKPOINT ASIA
“Massive Leak Confirms Turkey’s Gold-for-Gas Scheme to Evade US Sanctions on Iran
“Not only is gold money, it's US sanctions-proof money”
It is hard to imagine how much work US officials do just to enforce the vicious set of laws called “American sanctions.”
No one has the right to sanction other nations as the US does. After all, it means applying American laws to everyone else on the planet. Imagine the global chaos if everyone behaved the same way?
But America has absolutely no sense anymore of fairness or good sense or even regard for the proper rule of law.
I do very much believe that these feverish efforts actually speed the decline of the US.
Even friends and allies lose respect for the US, and they grow very tired of all the threats and enforcement efforts and of being told what they may and may not do.
The sanctions involve a shrill repetition of “I’m right, and you’re wrong,” over and over, something most people do get tired of hearing.
Of course, international trade is driven down by the effort, right at a time of fragile international economic circumstances. It just doesn’t come any dumber than that.
Building big walls always has been a sign of fear and decline for empires, and the American sanctions effort represents the world's biggest wall, one which requires constant attention and repair.
