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Trump imposes harsh sanctions on Colombia for not accepting "repatriation" flights
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this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2025
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Look, I know that immigration is a contentious issue, but sanctioning a country for not repatriating its citizens is a disproportionate response. Trump and Co. are really obsessed with immigration to even do this. It says a lot what values they have.
Are those people really Columbian citizens? I would not put it past Trump to just command ICE to land the next plane full of "somehow latin looking people" somewhere south of the border.
It's a response to make them do it. And it worked. They caved.
Yeah, I just saw the news that Colombia gave in.
Trump is going all in. He's reverting to the 19th century way of strong arming other countries over petty things. He's reviving the old-school capitalist imperialism.
It never went away...
Nothing wrong with throwing your weight around in this situation.
He does that to strongarm companies into complying, because it works. It's also setting an example for other countries to cooperate.
I suppose, but we're talking about international diplomacy. And a modern one at that.
Trump's strong arming sounds so 19th century though. His open threat of taking Panama canal, Canada, Greenland, and renaming the Gulf of Mexico is so manifest destiny.
20th century too! If a government didn't do what we wanted them to do, we just couped their government, and installed a dictator.
I mean, how do you think Sadaam Hussein got into power?
Yes, it does have a lot of similarities.
You expect "reasonable" from the orange idiot?