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I wish an action like this would actually change things in the US, but it wouldn't.
The American people would continue to suffer and die--the most vulnerable and already marginalized first. Conservatives will get more hostile toward everyone else because of scarcity. They'll start shooting people at Wal-Mart over bread.
The rich will just white-knuckle grip their off shore bank accounts and move elsewhere.
I suspect it is as much to insulate themselves from the chaos the US is causing as it is to punish or harm the Americans directly.
Oh, I completely get that. I just wish that such a near-global response to American hostility would result in a wake-up call.