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[–] 1 point 3 months ago (7 children)

This alleged overproduction drove down the price of oil, which Iraq called “economic warfare.”

Woah, didn't Hegseth use this term to describe Iran recently?

I thought it was crazy, because it's literally describing the opposite of war: sanctions are not warfare. They're diplomacy.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Sanctions are war in the sense that war is killing people. And they’re certainly not diplomacy in the sense that diplomacy is a two way negotiation of relations. You might see a problematic power imbalance when discussing the U.S. sanctioning Cuba, for instance.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    No. Sanctions are literally the opposite of war.

    Yes, sanctions can kill people.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

    Sanctions are not peace. Or at least I certainly wouldn’t die on that hill

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    Nobody said Sanctions are peace.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    The opposite of war is peace, QED, thank you

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Yes, peace is an opposite of war.

    The world is not a dichotomy

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    That’s interesting conceptually! The word “right” has opposites in both “left” and “wrong”, but each one only applies to one meaning of the word. Do you have any examples of what you’re talking about aside from the one we’re currently disagreeing over?

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