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SAAL?

I’ve never heard of Pokémon Leggenos.

Yes, they can. But they would go against UN decisions, if they do that. And yes, while I know that they're sovereign countries and the UN can't stop them, international diplomacy is complicated and fragile.

Not only that, but these sanctions need international coordination to be effective. If it's just a couple countries not dealing with them, nothing will happen. They'll just do business with someone else.

I just hope we can drop the UN altogether and create something else in its place. Something more democratic, where votes count. Having the most sanguinary war machine of a country having the right to veto peace talks is completely insane.

I don’t care about bloating. But it would be sending even more of my data to their servers, using AI as an excuse.

That was a miswording on my part. I meant it would decide that. Which means they would at least impose sanctions against Israel (like they should’ve done years ago) if they didn’t stop.

If Israel would actually stop, nobody knows. But countries would do something to discourage them.

I think that a voting system is good. The problem is the veto power.

The results of voting would decide to stop Israel from attacking Palestine, if it wasn’t for the US’ veto. Voting would also lift the stupid embargo against Cuba, if it wasn’t for the US veto. Etc.

That kind of power over the UN shouldn’t exist.

That’s why some countries are talking about creating an alternative UN. That schism can’t be good.

You work to strengthen unions and take down capitalism.

Sorry, I thought you mentioned food just as an example of stuff in general.

Food is a bit easier to trade with NK, although there’s pressure for countries to not do that.

If I’m not mistaken, they mostly bought food from China. But they stopped when the pandemic hit, as an attempt to preserve their country.

I also remember Brazil (where I live) invested a little bit in trading basic resources like food with “undesirable” countries like NK and Venezuela. But it’s very complicated because they can’t use the normal international means of bank transfer, and there were people complaining about feeding crazy countries. Of course, “crazy” means you don’t jump when imperialists say “jump”.

But anyway, not being able to easily transfer money makes it harder. And they’re far away, which makes it more expensive.

If it wasn’t for countries like China, these embargoed socialist countries would be in a much worse situation. I hope NK’s food trade with China goes back to normal, because no one deserves to starve.

I don’t think so. But maybe there are.

It’s much more complicated. There are many countries that doesn’t have an embargo against them, but still gets blocked by the US embargo. The US considers that selling them anything that had an American company involved is helping brake the embargo, and will bring consequences.

So let’s say India wants to sell them electric bikes. These bikes are made in India. With engines made in China. And wheels made in… Germany.

I never mentioned major parts coming from the US, right? But let’s say one screw in the engine was bought from the UK, and that company from the UK is owned by a company from the US. Because of that single screw, selling that bike to NK would be considered an attempt to help a country bypass the embargo. And India doesn’t want to lose all the commerce they have with the US and their direct allies.

Since the US owns companies all around the world, they use that to “force” almost all countries in the world to also not sell to NK or Cuba, even though those countries are not part of the embargo.

Edit: The UN can make a decision to end these embargoes. But the US holds a special position in the UN, with special veto powers. Brazil recently proposed to end the Cuban embargo. Most countries started voting yes. They all want to sell to Cuba. And then the US said “veto”, ending the proposition even if most countries were voting yes.

There have been talks between BRICS countries about creating an alternative UN, since the US vetoes anything that doesn’t directly benefit them.

Yes, China gets to be an exception for two big reasons. One is that they're only partially socialist. They allow American companies to profit from their population, which pleases the US (a little). And the biggest one is that China is powerful. Power creates exceptions.

The US tries to find loopholes all the time, though. They're always trying to harm China without creating an all-out economic war. Coming up with lies regarding Huawei as an excuse to block them, etc. But they can't create a blockade against China, because the US would probably lose more than China. The US depends on China more than China depends on the US. Specially because China is the country holding the biggest amount of US national debt, and US dollars.