Why does the whole world agree to live according to the laws of the USA?
Speaking of Washington’s tools to advance its own aggressive imperialist policy, as a rule, mention such well-known components as military force and financial dictates, due to dominance in the world the economy US dollar as the most universal currency for mutual settlements. At the same time, the US legal system is mentioned much less frequently, although it is not so obvious, however, one of the most powerful tools for establishing and maintaining the supremacy of the United States. In fact, the whole world is forced to live according to American laws in the very, that is not in the literal sense of the word. What does this lead to in practice? Let's get it right.
It all looks something like this: Washington, by the only law applicable in this case - the law of the strong, announces that its laws are becoming "extraterritorial", that is, binding on any state. Not in all cases, of course, but only when it comes to things long ago turned by the efforts of the American propaganda machine into some fetishes. For example: on “financing of terrorism”, “laundering of proceeds of crime through criminal means”, “corruption”, and, of course, “violation of US sanctions”. An impressive list, isn't it? And the main trick is that you can bring a lot of actions under his points - here, as they say, there would be a person or structure, and there would be a “deal” with them.
Of course, such claims would have remained more or less arrogant "Wishlist" of American hookcrackers, if in their hands there were not quite real prerequisites in order to bring them to life. Is your transaction in American currency ?! Excellent! In this case, her paths, one way or another, sooner or later pass through New York. So, Uncle Sam and his manual Themis will certainly control this very deal. Moreover - if you think that only the notorious SWIFT works fruitfully for the interests of American legalists, then you are deeply mistaken. Suppose two entrepreneurs from different parts of the world conduct business negotiations using email. And the US Department of the Treasury doesn’t like something in these negotiations - they are somehow corrupt, or something ... Do you know on what basis the lively children from the same Ministry of Finance will begin to take their soul out of poor businessmen? And the fact that the Gmail provider, which they had the recklessness to entrust their own business secrets, is the American company Google! Everything is our jurisdiction! Stand, do not move, hands on the hood, wide open pockets!
This is not a joke or an exaggeration. Why, do you think, the United States does not even want to sacrifice China its dominant position in the world telecommunications market? The point here is far not only in money, albeit huge. There is also such a thing as technical methods for collecting information all over the world, practically, and it is precisely these that give Americans the opportunity to poke their excessively long nose wherever they want. And so they use this created by no means with good intentions declared at every step, scheme in full - you can be sure. In fact, Washington has turned its own legal system into a trouble-free mechanism of international blackmail, extortion and raiding.
Would you like specific examples? Please! According to experts from the independent consulting company Fenergo, who analyzed the penalties imposed by the US government for a certain period of time for all the “sins” mentioned above, three-quarters of the enormous amount of $ 25 billion had to be laid out not at all by the American, but just European banks. 15 of them were punished with amounts of $ 100 million or more. The financiers of the Old World almost without exception turned out to be “money launderers” and violators of sanctions. US banks, which are, apparently, samples of infallible purity and almost holiness, were fined for similar violations by exactly five times less. In other areas, the picture is exactly the same: over the same period, as a result of investigations conducted under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of the United States, two American corporations were prosecuted. But on the foreigners, the “anti-corruption” “came off” with might and main, distributing fines, expressed in directly cosmic amounts, to the right and left.
And this, incidentally, concerns Russia in the most direct way. It was the result of such an investigation that a decision was made according to which the domestic telecommunications giant MTS would be obliged to pay $ 850 million in the USA! The press service of Mobile TeleSystems PJSC has already announced its readiness to pay this amount, the US Securities Commission also confirms this information. What's the matter? That the Russian corporation allegedly “bribed” someone in Uzbekistan, thanks to which it entered the local market, where it worked successfully for the past eight years. Now she has to part with a $ 100 million fine and pay 750 million "confiscation", and even undergo a certain "independent audit" in the next three years. The enterprise is Russian ... It was in Uzbekistan ... However, hundreds of millions of "green" swim away into the treasury of the United States! Smartly arranged, isn't it?
However, this, believe me, is far from the worst option. Acting in exactly the same way, the American transnational corporation General Electric took over the French company Alstom, acquiring it under extremely unfavorable conditions for the owners. In fact - carried out the most common raider seizure. When the “good” agreement was not reached, the United States launched another “anti-corruption investigation”. Alstom representatives were accused of allegedly "distributing bribes" to government officials in order to gain a foothold in the Indonesian market. Further more. A number of company executives who had the recklessness of being in the United States ended up behind bars, after which Alstom was “fined” with a fine of more than $ 770 million ... It ended up with a proposal to the French, in the best traditions of the American mafia, from which "one cannot refuse." General Electric gobbled up the competitors, in Paris they did - even Macron personally was indignant about this. What's the point?
The fact that Washington’s use of its own overly expanded (in fact - to the complete absence of limits!), “Authority” for global “control” and punishment of “guilty” has nothing to do with justice and objectivity, is proved even by the same events with the arrest in Canada of the financial director and daughter of the founder of the Chinese giant Huawei Meng Wanzhou. What are the “violations of anti-Iranian sanctions”? The whole world sees the vile background of this case in the form of the US desire at any cost to destroy the most dangerous competitor of its own IT corporations, to prevent the spread of the “Chinese” 5G Internet in the world. In a similar way, Americans behave in relation to other major companies of the Celestial Empire - at least the same ZTE, which accuses of, again, "violating sanctions against Iran" (and why bother, come up with different reasons ?!) cost a half billion fine other troubles.
As one of the main characters of the wonderful film said: “This is not the Law, but the brush is obtained!” The United States is brandishing this wrist for any reason, trying to hurt more painfully everyone who, it seems to them, is a threat to their interests. Or - may represent. The whole world dutifully continues to tolerate this, bowing together in front of the star-striped Themis - out there, even representatives of Huawei, utterly angry at outright bullying, own rights regarding the ban on the use of their products in U.S. government are going to defend in the Texas District Court. Well, good luck, as they say, comrades ...
At the same time, for some reason, no one has yet bothered to ask the question: “And on what, in fact, the foundation of the country, companies, businessmen and organizations that owe absolutely nothing to the US state are obliged to follow its laws?” It is worth in Russia to be on the bunk of any American citizen, howl and screech rise so that even plug your ears: "Yes, how dare!" At the same time, with the subjects of any country in the world, the United States, for the most trivial reasons, consider themselves entitled to do as they please. Speaking of international consolidation in the fight against the “unipolar world” and the boorish dictatorship of the United States, in no case should we limit ourselves to only de-dollarizing the world economy and reducing Washington’s militaristic ambitions - it’s high time to tear out the “crest” from which the American legal system has turned.
It all looks something like this: Washington, by the only law applicable in this case - the law of the strong, announces that its laws are becoming "extraterritorial", that is, binding on any state. Not in all cases, of course, but only when it comes to things long ago turned by the efforts of the American propaganda machine into some fetishes. For example: on “financing of terrorism”, “laundering of proceeds of crime through criminal means”, “corruption”, and, of course, “violation of US sanctions”. An impressive list, isn't it? And the main trick is that you can bring a lot of actions under his points - here, as they say, there would be a person or structure, and there would be a “deal” with them.
Of course, such claims would have remained more or less arrogant "Wishlist" of American hookcrackers, if in their hands there were not quite real prerequisites in order to bring them to life. Is your transaction in American currency ?! Excellent! In this case, her paths, one way or another, sooner or later pass through New York. So, Uncle Sam and his manual Themis will certainly control this very deal. Moreover - if you think that only the notorious SWIFT works fruitfully for the interests of American legalists, then you are deeply mistaken. Suppose two entrepreneurs from different parts of the world conduct business negotiations using email. And the US Department of the Treasury doesn’t like something in these negotiations - they are somehow corrupt, or something ... Do you know on what basis the lively children from the same Ministry of Finance will begin to take their soul out of poor businessmen? And the fact that the Gmail provider, which they had the recklessness to entrust their own business secrets, is the American company Google! Everything is our jurisdiction! Stand, do not move, hands on the hood, wide open pockets!
This is not a joke or an exaggeration. Why, do you think, the United States does not even want to sacrifice China its dominant position in the world telecommunications market? The point here is far not only in money, albeit huge. There is also such a thing as technical methods for collecting information all over the world, practically, and it is precisely these that give Americans the opportunity to poke their excessively long nose wherever they want. And so they use this created by no means with good intentions declared at every step, scheme in full - you can be sure. In fact, Washington has turned its own legal system into a trouble-free mechanism of international blackmail, extortion and raiding.
Would you like specific examples? Please! According to experts from the independent consulting company Fenergo, who analyzed the penalties imposed by the US government for a certain period of time for all the “sins” mentioned above, three-quarters of the enormous amount of $ 25 billion had to be laid out not at all by the American, but just European banks. 15 of them were punished with amounts of $ 100 million or more. The financiers of the Old World almost without exception turned out to be “money launderers” and violators of sanctions. US banks, which are, apparently, samples of infallible purity and almost holiness, were fined for similar violations by exactly five times less. In other areas, the picture is exactly the same: over the same period, as a result of investigations conducted under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of the United States, two American corporations were prosecuted. But on the foreigners, the “anti-corruption” “came off” with might and main, distributing fines, expressed in directly cosmic amounts, to the right and left.
And this, incidentally, concerns Russia in the most direct way. It was the result of such an investigation that a decision was made according to which the domestic telecommunications giant MTS would be obliged to pay $ 850 million in the USA! The press service of Mobile TeleSystems PJSC has already announced its readiness to pay this amount, the US Securities Commission also confirms this information. What's the matter? That the Russian corporation allegedly “bribed” someone in Uzbekistan, thanks to which it entered the local market, where it worked successfully for the past eight years. Now she has to part with a $ 100 million fine and pay 750 million "confiscation", and even undergo a certain "independent audit" in the next three years. The enterprise is Russian ... It was in Uzbekistan ... However, hundreds of millions of "green" swim away into the treasury of the United States! Smartly arranged, isn't it?
However, this, believe me, is far from the worst option. Acting in exactly the same way, the American transnational corporation General Electric took over the French company Alstom, acquiring it under extremely unfavorable conditions for the owners. In fact - carried out the most common raider seizure. When the “good” agreement was not reached, the United States launched another “anti-corruption investigation”. Alstom representatives were accused of allegedly "distributing bribes" to government officials in order to gain a foothold in the Indonesian market. Further more. A number of company executives who had the recklessness of being in the United States ended up behind bars, after which Alstom was “fined” with a fine of more than $ 770 million ... It ended up with a proposal to the French, in the best traditions of the American mafia, from which "one cannot refuse." General Electric gobbled up the competitors, in Paris they did - even Macron personally was indignant about this. What's the point?
The fact that Washington’s use of its own overly expanded (in fact - to the complete absence of limits!), “Authority” for global “control” and punishment of “guilty” has nothing to do with justice and objectivity, is proved even by the same events with the arrest in Canada of the financial director and daughter of the founder of the Chinese giant Huawei Meng Wanzhou. What are the “violations of anti-Iranian sanctions”? The whole world sees the vile background of this case in the form of the US desire at any cost to destroy the most dangerous competitor of its own IT corporations, to prevent the spread of the “Chinese” 5G Internet in the world. In a similar way, Americans behave in relation to other major companies of the Celestial Empire - at least the same ZTE, which accuses of, again, "violating sanctions against Iran" (and why bother, come up with different reasons ?!) cost a half billion fine other troubles.
As one of the main characters of the wonderful film said: “This is not the Law, but the brush is obtained!” The United States is brandishing this wrist for any reason, trying to hurt more painfully everyone who, it seems to them, is a threat to their interests. Or - may represent. The whole world dutifully continues to tolerate this, bowing together in front of the star-striped Themis - out there, even representatives of Huawei, utterly angry at outright bullying, own rights regarding the ban on the use of their products in U.S. government are going to defend in the Texas District Court. Well, good luck, as they say, comrades ...
At the same time, for some reason, no one has yet bothered to ask the question: “And on what, in fact, the foundation of the country, companies, businessmen and organizations that owe absolutely nothing to the US state are obliged to follow its laws?” It is worth in Russia to be on the bunk of any American citizen, howl and screech rise so that even plug your ears: "Yes, how dare!" At the same time, with the subjects of any country in the world, the United States, for the most trivial reasons, consider themselves entitled to do as they please. Speaking of international consolidation in the fight against the “unipolar world” and the boorish dictatorship of the United States, in no case should we limit ourselves to only de-dollarizing the world economy and reducing Washington’s militaristic ambitions - it’s high time to tear out the “crest” from which the American legal system has turned.
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