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RobinHanson's avatar

But the US didn't do these things as a neutral judge enforcing a clear preexisting agreement.

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Canadiak's avatar

>Thus it seems possible for the world to have a legal system wherein a widely-used sufficiently-defended financial hub agreed to enforce treaties between the nations whose assets were held there. Then if a nation violated its treaty, and refused to abide by this court’s ruling against it, then this law could declare that nation an outlaw, and grab its held assets.

Hasn't Russia had a significant amount of their assets seized? The US seized a lot of Afghanistan's assets after the Taliban took over too. Your proposal doesn't sound too dramatically different than the status quo.

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