Sanctions don't affect the leadership, they starve the people. Palestine, Cuba, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, North Korea and many others... admit the truth: it's. hardly-

Sanctions don't affect the leadership, they starve the people. Palestine, Cuba, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, North Korea and many others... admit the truth: it's. hardly-ever. works. It only "feels" like a solution, but it's purely an idealistic panacea based on diffuse, passive-aggressive, starvation-causing harm. The problem and solution comes by first asking "what's worked and at what cost?" Monroe doctrine has been the over-arching ideology: US corporate interests > everyone else's. That's the problem: trying to control other countries and steal their resources, rather than dealing with other countries as equals by mutual-respect of sovereignties. ---- "Successes" (but failures in diplomatic and popularity terms) ---- - invasion (see: Smedley Butler's War is a Racket ) - genocide - death squads trained by SoA - arms trafficking in exchange for cocaine - illegally sending arms to right-wing death squads - CIA-backed coups, overt and covert ---- Failed ---- - US plutocrats' media-fought coup attempt recently Venezuela