4 ms·
If sanctions worked really well, that position could be justifiable. In practice, sanctions rarely if ever seem to cause violent revolution. They just end up h
by native_samples 5y ago
If sanctions worked really well, that position could be justifiable.
In practice, sanctions rarely if ever seem to cause violent revolution. They just end up hurting the little guys who can't do anything anyway, whilst the most well connected work around them anyway. See how North Korea has Apple computers ... for the leadership.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> In practice, sanctions rarely if ever seem to cause violent revolution. Sanctions aren't supposed to cause violent revolution, particularly. They are supposed to: (1) Pressure the regime to change the course of action which caused them, and (2) Reduce the economic capacity behind, and this the effectiveness of, the targeted action so long as #1 doesn't work. Promoting violent overthrow of the regime is a manner of achieving #1, but while it is often an acceptable outcome from sanctions, it's generally not the preferred outcome. > They just end up hurting the little guys who can't do anything anyway All, even the most autocratic, regimes rely entirely on the at least tacit cooperation of “the little guy” to function at all.