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kleinbl00  ·  1956 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: If Black Americans were to seek asylum, they would easily qualify

I think it depends a lot on the definition of "accomplish."

Let's say that a black man is shot while handcuffed in South Carolina.. Perhaps England, France, Germany and Spain lodge a protest against civil rights violations within the United States but emphasize the known racial problems within industry and propose, as a solution, sanctions against exports tied to that particular local economy.

Does anything need to actually be passed by the UN? Is more than a press release necessary to impact a prominent member of the S&P and the largest single exporter in the United States? More than that, what impact does inaction by Boeing in the face of that allegation do to the stock market, the local economy, and US strategic dominance?

If I were Airbus I'd make this play the minute I think I can get away with it. Doesn't even matter if it works.





b_b  ·  1956 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think Airbus would do that in a heartbeat if they controlled the governments of the UK and France. I think that France and the UK are always spooked by the prospect of retaliation (even when we don't have a mercurial moron who loves trade wars in charge), however, so I tend to doubt that they would do that even in an extreme circumstance like this one. I also believe that Trump would try to block all European trade in US banks if he thought they "deserved" it and it would make him look tough. He doesn't care for a single second about fallout.

kleinbl00  ·  1956 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There's a lot of "I think" and "tend to doubt" and "try" in that statement, which is pretty much my point.

We're at an unstable, uncertain enough point in history right now that certain gambits that didn't pay off before could pay off now.