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Sabotaging your own military's weapons still sounds an awful lot like treason
Sanctions have never ever in human history worked, so more like sabotaging one's placebos...
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Sanctions are war.
This is a dumb statement every time it's asserted. Sanctions are not an act of war in any sense. Not in theory nor in a pragmatic sense. The distinction between war and other modes of interstate hostility is an important one which we should not abandon. "Sanctions are war" is the same sort of statement as "speech is violence": it's sophistic, and it collapses nuance instead of encouraging it.
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interesting. let's see the CCP's human rights record
Sure, these'll get you started https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_jails
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You say it like he was teaching the gospel of Christ. Teaching a hostile foreign power how to evade sanctions is a crime for a reason, and if he wants to be a martyr against that principle then let him be one.
Free peaceful expression should never be a crime, as there is no victim and no one is harmed. Teaching itself is never inherently harmful. Sanctions are authoritarian nonsense.
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Really? Most households have a cell phone, though internet access is spotty.
The phones can't be used as general-purpose computers. Access to smartphone apps is tightly controlled. https://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-smartphones-2018... > Despite having connection to an intranet, North Korean smartphone users have to download apps at physical store locations where they can get apps approved by the North Korean government.
For the record, I don't think North Koreans are using crypto for their personal finances, I just disagree that they are unable to.
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> as a means of settling disputes As a means of forcing someone to unwillingly settle a dispute in your favor that is. I have no sympathy for North Korea, but sanctions are not an alternative to war. Sanctions are an alternative to bullets.
> As a means of forcing someone to unwillingly settle a dispute in your favor that is. what kind of strange take it is? What do you think war is ?
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Five years seems pretty mild when you consider the chief purpose of sanctions is to provide an alternative to war as a means of settling disputes. And this man is willfully undermining the ability of his country to levy sanctions. Surely actively undermining the security of ones country is a serious offense.
> as a means of settling disputes As a means of forcing someone to unwillingly settle a dispute in your favor that is. I have no sympathy for North Korea, but sanctions are not an alternative to war. Sanctions are an alternative to bullets.
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> As a means of forcing someone to unwillingly settle a dispute in your favor that is. what kind of strange take it is? What do you think war is ?
Sanctions are economic warfare.