• Tarte@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    The EU doesn’t use food and medicine as a weapon. Even Russia is still getting all the food and medicine they want to import.

    • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.de
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      10 months ago

      It wouldnt be weaponized. The UK can still buy these products. It is only that the sale would incurr an additional tax that has to be paid by the exporting company.

      Also the EU supports the US in its sanctions against Iran and has supported the sanctions against Iraq, that killed more than half a Million Iraqi childrens in the 90s by affecting food and medicine. The reimposed sanctions have lead to drastic inflation for food and rising food insecurity in Iran.

      So it is not a moral stance of the EU. It is purely strategical and i find a strategic response to invasion plans perfectly appropriate