| And by that logic, you have the right to refuse to sell me your belongings, but I have the right to beat the snot out of you until you agree to sell me all your stuff.
After all, your trade embargo of me is a threat to my existence, if I want your stuff.
Where is it written that any nation anywhere has any rights whatsoever outside their borders? I don't care how oppressed they feel; if I don't want to sell my stuff to North Korea, I don't have to. North Korea does not have any inherent right to force me to sell to them. Last I heard, there was another word for "securing trade through force" - stealing.
And there is a big difference between a trade embargo, i.e. one nation deciding not to sell any of its domestically-produced goods to another nation, and pressuring other countries to do the same. |
