According to the current administration, almost half of the US is considered a political enemy of the current administration.

Soon they might be pushing for Operating Systems to gather political party preference information, so they can know who should be restricted from the use of strong encryption. The options being:

1. I love america

2. Radical left looney

3. Neither male nor female.

4. Those that tremble as if they were mad[0]

[0]: https://thewhippet.org/the-whippet-134-those-that-tremble/#c...

> move somewhere more willing to respect international law?

Some of these sanctions are required by international law (i.e. sanctions imposed by UNSC). For the other ones, international law generally lets countries have whatever trade policy they see fit including sanctions, unless they violate some other rule of international law or treaty obligation.

Why would other countries be less likely to impose sanctions on their political enemies?