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Comment by sumedh | Hacker News Reader

The problem is that US is like a 800 pound gorilla, you cannot afford to piss of the US.

Well, that why U.S. politicians won't be held accountable. That doesn't stop the rest of us from holding our politicians accountable, though.

> That doesn't stop the rest of us from holding our politicians accountable, though.

So your country goes against the US, the US retaliates by stopping trade. People in your country lose jobs, people demand the govt to fix things, what is your govt going to do then?

It easy to say our politicians should be accountable, real life is more complicated though.

I honestly doubt the current U.S. administration would do anything if say, Denmark started internal inquiries about whether their politicians' decision to participate invade Iraq was made on false grounds. If they did, the EU would probably not be happy about trade sanctions.

Denmark was obviously just an example, but there are a lot of U.S. allies, trading partners and so on, that all have assisted or participated in the war on terror.

Besides, the Democrats could probably just blame it on Bush anyway.

You gave Denmark as an example, sure they can do it. Denmark's trade with US is very tiny but lets say Russian submarines start showing up near Greenland, what is Denmark going to do, they will go to NATO where you have US calling the shots.

Once Russia starts making some noise, all European countries will need US protection.

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