How should the US respond to sanctions?

[tsai3904]

Sanctions = act of war

How should we respond when another country imposes sanctions on us?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...88Q0MG20120927

EU seeks $12 billion trade sanctions on U.S. in Boeing row

The European Union on Thursday asked the World Trade Organization for the right to impose trade sanctions worth up to $12 billion annually on the United States in retaliation for illegal U.S. subsidies to planemaker Boeing.

The request, which is the largest penalty ever sought from the WTO, is the latest legal move in what is the world's biggest trade dispute and one of the longest.

[SpreadOfLiberty]

Stop bailing out Euro banks for starters!

[fr33]

Withdraw all troops from Europe and close down the bases. Their presence there is a subsidy and is both unneeded and apparently unwelcome.

[tsai3904]

Withdraw all troops from Europe and close down the bases. Their presence there is a subsidy and is both unneeded and apparently unwelcome.

Ok pretend a made up country that we have no relationship with imposes sanctions on us. What is the right response?

[SpreadOfLiberty]

Ok pretend a made up country that we have no relationship with imposes sanctions on us. What is the right response?

Something I have been trying to stress: All foreign policy situations require different responses!

But we do need to have plans thought out for all kinds of scenarios, as most usually encompass bits and pieces of others.

It is not as simple as "always stay out" or "always bomb them".

[fr33]

Ok pretend a made up country that we have no relationship with imposes sanctions on us. What is the right response?

Ignore them. One country sanctioning us is really nothing. I guess the next thing is you'll ask me what to do if they convince other nations to join their sanction...

If so; lead by example and the market will discourage such a thing. People usually don't want to commit suicide by acting against their own interests.

[tsai3904]

Ignore them. One country sanctioning us is really nothing. I guess the next thing is you'll ask me what to do if they convince other nations to join their sanction...

Do you believe sanctions are an act of war? If yes, why would you ignore an act of war?

[RickyJ]

It depends on the sanctions and the effect it would have. If it would devastate our economy and the sanctions were designed to hurt our defenses to make us ripe for take over, there is only one right response, the destruction of those that seek to take us over.

[ClydeCoulter]

It depends on the sanctions and the effect it would have. If it would devastate our economy and the sanctions were designed to hurt our defenses to make us ripe for take over, there is only one right response, the destruction of those that seek to take us over.

Reaction in-kind or better?

[ClydeCoulter]

Do you believe sanctions are an act of war? If yes, why would you ignore an act of war?

Respond with Sanction war?