system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why is there so little or no meaningful reaction or consequence to the US after the Snowden leaks? [FIXED]
gpt
Because the US is the 800lb gorilla of international politics.  You have an economy so strong that there is no one who is super keen to piss you off.  The US doing business with a place like Canada can make or break the entire Canadian economy.

Economic sanctions are almost useless, because the US had the ability to block any organization who is able to impose them (and who would we get to enforce them anyway).

The US is the equivalent of the bully who works at daddy's company.  You can't be fired and everyone else just tries not to piss you off.  But you make a good friend if we can stay on your good side.