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Trump imposes harsh sanctions on Colombia for not accepting "repatriation" flights (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 days ago

It's a response to make them do it. And it worked. They caved.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] ubergeek@lemmy.today 10 points 3 days ago

He’s reviving the old-school capitalist imperialism.

It never went away...

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

He does that to strongarm companies into complying, because it works. It's also setting an example for other countries to cooperate.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.