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Originally Posted by August
But what about their assets in the US. Couldn't they be seized as at least partial payment?
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Th US can always seize assets. Now whether that is legal or not is another issue. Again, since the US does not recognize authority of the ICJ with respect to decisions against the US, it becomes a moot point.
The issue with SA is that they have been involved in a lot of dirty work on behalf of the US... and have been well paid for it. If we annoy them enough, there might be an accidental "leak" of some documents that will prove most embarrassing.
What will probably happen is that if a citizen sues SA, the US will pay the citizen's claim (bet the tax payers will love that) and SA will "owe" the US the money. We will probably deduct that from some military sales deal.
What else can we do we going to do, take SA to the ICJ?
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