Why Not Sanction the U S ? We Sanction Everyone Else

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:01]Hey, I'm Jason. This is Wrong Enough to Know Better.

[00:00:05]So, our groceries are costing more this month.

[00:00:11]Our gas is costing more.

[00:00:14]The airline ticket that you were thinking about buying is costing more.

[00:00:20]And none of that happened because of anything that we did.

[00:00:25]It happened because the United States started a war.

[00:00:30]Not our war.

[00:00:33]We didn't vote on it.

[00:00:35]Our government didn't vote on it.

[00:00:37]Nobody called.

[00:00:40]Washington just made a decision and we're getting stuck with the bill.

[00:00:45]All of us.

[00:00:47]In our houses.

[00:00:49]The war in Iran has generated what the International Energy Agency is calling the largest oil supply disruption in the history of the global market.

[00:01:02]Fertilizer prices are up over 50% since the beginning of the year.

[00:01:07]The World Food Program is projecting that 45 million additional people are going to be facing acute hunger if this war continues through to June.

[00:01:21]That's 45 million people because of a decision made by one lunatic.

[00:01:30]By one government that feels no compassion for a single one of them.

[00:01:37]This is how bad the situation really is.

[00:01:41]Most of us in Western countries, our neighbors, our co-workers, people who most certainly would never say this out loud, are hoping that America loses.

[00:01:57]Not because we love Iran, but because it's the only scenario where the United States feels any consequences at all for what it's done to our cost of living.

[00:02:12]That's where we're at. Citizens of American allied countries like Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Australia, we're all sitting in our kitchens paying more for bread, pasta, and quietly rooting for the underdog.

[00:02:32]Not because we love or believe in their ideology, but because the math just isn't mathing for us.

[00:02:42]And our consent was never there. So, the question that I want to ask is, we have the tools for situations like this. Sanctions exist. The world has used them many times.

[00:02:58]The logic that justifies sanctions has never had a formal exemption for the United States. There's just always been this assumption that applying that logic to America was unthinkable.

[00:03:14]But here we are.

[00:03:15]The unthinkable is becoming a hell of a lot more thinkable at this point.

[00:03:21]And the worst hasn't even hit us yet.

[00:03:25]The number that we keep hearing being reported is the American number.

[00:03:31]$2 billion per day in military costs.

[00:03:35]That's the bill that Trump chose to run up. But the bill that nobody chose, that nobody's totaling, it's in every grocery store on Earth.

[00:03:51]It's at every gas station.

[00:03:54]It's in every shipping container.

[00:03:57]For every farmer who can't afford fertilizer this planting season and made a different decision about what crop to grow.

[00:04:06]The IEA called this the largest oil supply disruption in the history of the global market.

[00:04:14]The cost of that doesn't just exist in the Pentagon's budget.

[00:04:20]It lives in our homes. And it's not $2 billion a day. It's trillions of dollars.

[00:04:29]At what point do our alliances with the United States become nothing but a liability?

[00:04:39]At what point does the price of our relationship outweigh the relationship?

[00:04:46]I'm not answering that. Maybe we're there. Maybe we aren't.

[00:04:52]I'm just noting that nobody seems to be really asking the question. And maybe it's time we should be.

[00:05:01]Anyway, those were the squirrels running through my brain today.

[00:05:06]Have yourself a great day, great night, great morning, great evening.

[00:05:13]I'll catch you in the next episode.