 MortyPremium
join:2004-09-18 | Blackmail... Where I come from this is called blackmail but then again, governments and large corporations use it all the time 
Why doesn't the US allow Russia to operate within their own laws, and just go after Americans who violate theirs, or better yet -- block it... oh... right that's because the USA is the land of the "free"... Why punish your own citizens for their crimes when you can punish a country that is already slipping back into a dictatorship. After the Soviet Union fell, life expectancy for men dropped by something like 10 years  and they dropped off the top 5 in GDP. |
| This isn't about punishing Russia. It says that if you want to join the WTO then you must play by the rules that everyone else plays by. All countries make consessions to join the WTO. This is one of those, not blackmail. You are using the same tactic as above posters when comparing things to murder and rape, by trying to connect it with blackmail. |
