The list of individuals and entities sanctioned by the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (Ofac) now runs to 2,206 pages and lists more than 12,000 names. Their use has accelerated sharply in the past decade as successive US presidents have opted for an apparently low-cost, bloodless solution to foreign policy problems.

This is a bit of an odd claim. While the reality is that sanctions result in increased poverty resulting in higher rates of death among the population, the US likes to claim that it will encourage the people to rise up against their " authoritarian" government. Are they expecting the revolution to be without spilled blood?

For the past two months, archive.today links have been sending me to an infinite CAPTCHA loops, and since they are shortened/obfuscated URLs, I can’t even extract the original URLs that they are shortening.