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This community note is fuckin wild.
(hexbear.net)
For starters, how the fuck do you enforce an embargo without the threat of violence, and secondly I love how me and all my communist friends are expected to have a PhD in world history and economics while your average liberal can cite two state department links and a CIA funded NGO and call it a day.
These morons don't understand that violence extends beyond shooting people
Sanctions are quite literally state level violence, typically levied against another state, because the consequences of them can oftentimes result in excess deaths due to an inferior supply of goods.
Do you think imperialists are capable of understanding they're not the protagonists?
You don't need to understand that to understand the implicature present in such arrangements. This is disingenuous garbage, disguised as semantical truth
Yes, they just don't care