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Trump’s Threat to Freeze Iraq’s US Bank Account Over Request to Withdraw Troops is Pure Mobster-Style Intimidation

by mosesman

  • Trump revealing the true face of American exceptionalism, push for “Democracy” BULLSHIT!!
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  • Trump’s Threat to Freeze Iraq’s US Bank Account Over Request to Withdraw Troops is Pure Mobster-Style Intimidation
    by Danielle Ryan, https://www.rt.com/
    Donald Trump’s threat to cut off Iraq’s access to its account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York if Baghdad insists on a withdrawal of US troops from its soil is bare-faced, modern-day colonialism. Let’s set the scene.
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    On January 5, the Iraqi parliament voted to approve a resolution calling for the removal of US troops. A day later, Donald Trump threatened to hit Iraqis with deadly economic sanctions “like they’ve never seen before” if Baghdad tries to expel American troops without first “paying us back” for an “extraordinarily expensive air base” built there.
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    Days later, when Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham grotesquely suggested that Iraq should indeed “repay the American taxpayer” for the base — built after US forces laid waste to the country in an illegal invasion — Trump, in typical fashion, did not even try to cloak his threat in niceties, opting for unequivocal blackmail instead.
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    “We have a lot of their money right now. We have 35 billion dollars of their money right now sitting in an account — and I think they’ll agree to pay. I think they’ll agree to pay, otherwise we’ll stay there.”
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