At the upcoming Summit for Democracy hosted by President Biden, the US will urge other countries to start using sanctions against government officials Washington deems to be “corrupt,” The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
Citing unnamed Biden administration officials, the report said the US will slap sanctions on foreign-government officials and other people the US accuses of corruption and human rights abuses ahead of the virtual summit that will be held on Thursday and Friday.
“Over the course of the week, Treasury will take a series of actions to designate individuals who are engaged in malign activities that undermine democracy and democratic institutions around the world including corruption, repression, organized crime, and serious human rights abuse,” one official said.
The measures will be levied under the Magnitsky Act, a law the US uses to target individuals with sanctions. The US’s allies have adopted new laws to be able to join the US in sanctioning officials, including the EU, the UK, Canada, and now Australia, which passed new rules Thursday.
The US invited over 100 countries to the summit and snubbed Russia and China by leaving them out. China is also angered by the fact that Taiwan will be participating.
Russia and China have both denounced the summit as another example of the US dividing the world into Cold War-style blocs and slammed Washington for making itself the arbiter of what is considered a democracy.
U S is nothing but frog in the mouth of Zionist rat snake. The frog launches its tongue for prey even when it is about to perish. Really amusing to hear the president talking about democracy freedom etc
And if those countries refuse to use sanctions then the US will have no choice but to sanction them into sanctioning them.
Well said! And I had a good chuckle as well!
All this from the worlds worst human rights abusers , not only that the most corrupt country in the world , on top of that the greatest threat to man kind and world peace .
quite simply, sanctions are a crime against humanity and I hope to live long enough to some day see many US and european officials prosecuted for using them against many smaller more vulnerable nations like Iran, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc etc
the US is the biggest threat to world peace in the history of the world. and will some day pay for it….. ojala!
Besides being criminal in intent and based on nothing but dimestic political decisions — sanctions kill trade. The country that preached free trade, freedom of trade — us shutting down trade by the miriad sanctions and tariffs.
The damage is for now blunted by Eurasian continental connectivity, and sea trade.
Slapping sanctions is easily done but it does not support America’s claim of being Democratic. If Democracy relies on the Freedom of Speech America has none. When the only avenue to Free Speech is a forum in a Website where it’s survival depends on the whimsical neurosis of the Moderator there is no freedom of speech. Speech is implied to mean the spoken word not typed out sentences.
If Democracy relies on a representative governemt then America has none. When each member of the House and the Senate represent 750 thousand Americans it is a joke to believe they do.
When Vaccines are forced against the will of a Citizen then America has no Democracy. Forced medication is a basic attack on the natural rights of a person. It harbors a future where vaccines drugs and even experimental drugs are forced upon an unwilling population