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发帖数: 38600 | 2 Consider a few examples...
Washington first forced the Swiss government to violate its own banking laws
. Then Washington forced Switzerland to repeal its bank secrecy laws.
Allegedly, Switzerland is a democracy, but the country’s laws are
determined in Washington by people not elected by the Swiss to represent
them.
Consider the “soccer scandal” that Washington concocted, apparently for
the purpose of embarrassing Russia. The soccer organization’s home is
Switzerland, but this did not stop Washington from sending FBI agents into
Switzerland to arrest Swiss citizens. Try to imagine Switzerland sending
Swiss federal agents into the US to arrest Americans.
Consider the $9 billion fine that Washington imposed on a French bank for
failure to fully comply with Washington’s sanctions against Iran. This
assertion of Washington’s control over a foreign financial institution is
even more audaciously illegal in view of the fact that the sanctions
Washington imposed on Iran and requires other sovereign countries to obey
are themselves strictly illegal. Indeed, in this case we have a case of
triple illegality as the sanctions were imposed on the basis of concocted
and fabricated charges that were lies.
Or consider that Washington asserted its authority over the contract between
a French shipbuilder and the Russian government and forced the French
company to violate a contract at the expense of billions of dollars to the
French company and a large number of jobs to the French economy. This was a
part of Washington teaching the Russians a lesson for not following
Washington’s orders in Crimea. |
