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Interesting take on sanctions and how they might not target the right people. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/23/obsession-sanctions-oligarc
by barbazoo 5y ago
Interesting take on sanctions and how they might not target the right people.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/23/obsession-sanctions-oligarchs-putin-hurt-russian-leader-ukraine https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/23/obsess...
Is there consensus that the sanctions, as the west uses them, are having a positive effect?
- toomuchtodo 5y agoI don't believe there is a consensus with regards to net positive effect from what I've read, but like Fed interest policy, it is a blunt tool yet one of the few tools one has to influence. Instead of sanctions, I think providing humanitarian visas would serve the situation better: you help expatriate citizens to countries better governed with superior economics, and you drain citizens from the offending nation, which is far more effective from a future productivity (which translates to economics over the long term) destruction approach.