I suggest to count how many more people would Russians kill without sanctions.
The COVID-19 pandemic brought this dynamic into even harsher focus. Countries like Iran and Venezuela struggled to import critical supplies, including testing kits, vaccine materials, and vaccines themselves.
What an absolute shit article. I doubt anyone will argue we've, historically, treated Iran or Venezuela well, but to not even touch on why the sanctions are in place is awful journalism. The disputes didn't happen in a vacuum and I'd like to hear about what they suggest the sitting regimes are doing to remedy the situation
The disputes didn't happen in a vacuum
Yes, like ithe usa and the british overthrew the democratically elected prime and put a dictator instead for wanting those countries to stop taking advantages of their natursl ressources
Man what did I write?
I doubt anyone will argue we've, historically, treated Iran or Venezuela well, but to not even touch on why the sanctions are in place is awful journalism.
Maduro is an authoritarian who's starving his population and ask the women of Iran how they feel about their government. Why they're in the situation they are is clearly with the influence of the us and large parts of the western world. If you do have an alternative to financial blockades please, I am actually all ears.
As someone who tries to avoid American and Chinese made products I really dislike the idea of us indulging even more terrible regimes
why the sanctions are in place To collectively punish countries who doesn't align with the west. Iran could turn democratic and pro human rights and they would still get sanctionned
Maduro is an authoritarian who's starving his population and ask the women of Iran how they feel about their government.
The usa is starving the country they sanctions, the usa did war crimes all over the world with other western countries support and complicity, never get sanctionned, israel is comiting genocide and mass starvation never got sanctionned. Saudi arabia is an authoritarian regime as bad as iran never got sanctionned. You can ask saudis women how they feel their government too, you can ask people who fon't vote because they believe nobody represent them.
This will be the last one for me because you're clearly looking for a fight and not a discussion when you argue that I'm speaking for these other authoritarian and genociding regimes. And since it seems I have to spoon-feed you it, they should face serious repercussions. Every country that doesn't abide by basic human rights should be held accountable
What a cheap shot from you , you can't defend the hypocrisy i mentioned so you start claiming that i just want a fight.
The western countries who caused the mess has zero right to punish other countries for their human right violations. Let Iranians fight their own oppressors
Pretty glaring omission of the sanctions on Russia in this blog-post universally condemning sanctions.
Looks like the People's Dispatch is far-left biased, so probably tankies deliberately writing stuff that benefits Russia.
Did war write this article?
Sanctions are just siege warfare using our trade influence to kill normal people in the hopes that the misery causes dissent against the government. Under anything but the "rules based order" they would be an act of war.
Get the fuck out of here you tankie roach.
How can you talk about "killing normal people" when you openly support the genocide of Ukrainians and russian imperialism in Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova.
This may be one of the dumbest takes I have ever seen. Sanctions are done instead of armed combat as a diplomatic tool. So instead of using those we should "checks notes" go to more war? That way war kills more people than sanctions.
This isn't discussed enough, likely because it doesn't have the shock and awe that war does, similar to how the relatively small amount of violent crime hits the news while all the vehicular deaths are mostly glossed over. They rarely actually have any effect on the rulers, yet they devastate the populace. Proponents say dumb shit like, "It will cause the people to rebel!" No, it won't. When you and your children are sick and literally starving, it is difficult to organize resistance, not only physically but also mentally as your cognitive functions suffer as well. That's also assuming that there is actually a fundamental issue with the government. Many times, sanctions are a cudgel used by western bullies against countries that won't play ball with extractive economics or other harmful policies. Sometimes, the pain caused to the population is the point because they had the gall to elect leaders the bullies don't like.
I am pretty sure the upcoming and intensifying wars are accepting the challenge.
So, sanctions do work, good to see.
Right, also we should all hold hands and sing Kumbaya.
The Lancet, so others can skip the propaganda piece.
It's kind of fascinating that warfare could be so limited that peacetime economics could determine more lives. They also mentioned that UN sanctions have no such effect, so pretty much all the usual suspects wouldn't be contributing.
I don't know, I have to assume there's credibility to this for it to be published, but it just seems impossible.
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