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by berdario 1376 days ago
> countries who [...] received no blowback from the US [...], such as Venezuela, Iran[...], and Russia

Lol...

There's been sanctions (and coups, for the first two) against those.

Sure, the parent was strictly talking about "bombing", but just because an US bomber didn't physically drop bombs on their land, it doesn't mean that there was no blowback
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jcranmer 1376 days ago
> There's been sanctions (and coups, for the first two) against those.

Not for moving away from USD, or merely talking about it.

Indeed, of those examples you cited, trying to move oil sales away from USD happened after the US imposed sanctions (and, it can be reasonably referred, in part because of the sanctions).

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berdario 1375 days ago
Sure, Mossadegh didn't try to move away from USD, he just tried to nationalize their oil industry.

In both cases, those are acts contrary to US interests, and trying to argue that we shouldn't consider the US reactions as part of the same pattern is sophistry

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