{"id":362389,"date":"2018-05-23T01:44:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T00:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/europes-response-to-secondary-sanctions-threats\/"},"modified":"2018-05-23T01:44:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T00:44:35","slug":"europes-response-to-secondary-sanctions-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/europes-response-to-secondary-sanctions-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s Response to Secondary Sanctions Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>French economy minister Bruno Le Maire, in response to U.S. threats to apply secondary sanctions to European companies trading with Iran, asks: <em>Est-ce que nous acceptons que les USA soient le gendarme \u00e9conomique de la plan\u00e8te ? La r\u00e9ponse europ\u00e9enne doit \u00eatre clairement non.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo we need to accept the USA as the economic policeman of the planet? The European response clearly must be no.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Mais bien sur. <\/em>The U.S. stands in violation of an agreement not just confirmed by Iran, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany but by the United Nations Security Council. The U.S. is now the international outlaw, demanding that others abandon their legitimate trade arrangements with Iran in order to indicate their continued submission to U.S. imperial fiat.<\/p>\n<p>The abrasiveness and inconsistency of Trump himself. The contradictions within his staff and their multiple announcements on foreign policy. The manifest deference of the U.S. president to a very backward support base and the Israel Lobby.\u00a0 These have little appeal in European capitals where leaders generally want peace in the Middle East, no more refugee floods, and adherence to a modicum of consultation within the Atlantic Alliance before Washington does something crazy.<\/p>\n<p>Trump responds: Screw you free-loaders, avoiding your 2% NATO expenditures! We like the Saudis and Israelis more than you, and they both want confrontation with Iran. Who cares about your auto manufacturing deals or airline deliveries? You\u2019re&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/05\/europes-response-to-secondary-sanctions-threats\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French economy minister Bruno Le Maire, in response to U.S. threats to apply secondary sanctions to European companies trading with Iran, asks: Est-ce que nous acceptons que les USA soient le gendarme \u00e9conomique de la plan\u00e8te ? La r\u00e9ponse europ\u00e9enne doit \u00eatre clairement non. \u201cDo we need to accept the USA as the economic policeman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-362389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}