Well, he does have big shoes to fill.

Marco Rubio, as his coworkers would say, is not one of the good ones

Yeah, kind of a crappy omission but the Guardian.

TheGuardian can't go correcting genociders on their lies now. Important to quote them verbatim at the top of the article and never correct them.

Honestly? Good.

I'm glad fascists are increasingly going mask-off.

The polite fictions were getting us nowhere. The US has been a rogue nation for decades, and the faster it loses international influence and legitimacy the better.

As someone living in Japan, I'm also curious what the Japanese response will be. The current gov probably has their head so far up the US's ass and wants to do its own shady shit, so I doubt there would be anything. Maybe silence was a part of the deal of the US helping the JPY.

A puppet state of a rogue state, which is even more pathetic and loathsome.

There's precedents on deleting your google account and denying credit card transaction as "sanction". I won't be surprised other US-based platforms to follow suits. This just highlights ever increasing need of digital and financial sovereignty

If their bank has dealings in the USA, they can be de-banked. If they use American credit cards, those can be shut down. Accounts for companies based in the USA can be disabled/deleted or otherwise flagged. They can be blocked from flying on American and allied airlines, or from flying through those countries.

Basically the US government will convince whoever they can to stop dealing with that person, or just to fuck with them in any way they can.

All sanctions imposed by any government are effectively nationwide legally imposed boycotts.

Sanctions against Russia for example are generally things like : we will not buy your oil, we will not allow our companies to sell products to you, etc. etc.

Same thing goes for sanctions against individuals, they make it illegal for any US based entities to have certain scopes of dealings with the target. Some sanctions go further and also refuse to deal with entities who deal with the target.

Therefore, depending on what sanctions have been imposed, they may have just made it illegal for them to have a visa or MasterCard, use any Microsoft or Google or apple software or services, etc. etc. etc.

• It's the other way around actually. Illegal for Visa/MasterCard or Microsoft or Google or apple, etc. to allow them to use their services.

I've been deliberately misspelling it the Untied States since Trump has been back in office