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No. Sanctions are weapons of mass destruction. They starve and kill the poorest in a nation. It's akin to carpet bombing a town without explosions. This is n
by thallium205 5y ago
No. Sanctions are weapons of mass destruction.
They starve and kill the poorest in a nation. It's akin to carpet bombing a town without explosions.
This is not hyperbole. Look to history at the destruction of sanctions.
- vaidhy 5y agoI have no idea why this is being down-voted. This is the truth. People in western europe have no idea what it means to live under scarcity. Take Sri Lanka for e.g. - not even under sanction, but lack foreign reserves. Long blackouts, disruption of normal life since petrol (gasoline) is not always available. Eventual food shortages because fertilizer needs to be imported. Now think of another country under sanctions - even hope of better future is being crushed.
- anonporridge 5y agoIt's getting downvoted because westerners have been whipped up into a bloodlust frenzy towards Russia. Just like the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, those who speak against the destruction will be derided as unpatriotic, freedom hating traitors.
- anonporridge 5y ago100%. Sanctions are a WMD that simply have a nice level of deniability. We don't have to see the mass destruction and pain they cause, because it's not a direct explosion like a bomb, but the ultimate effect is much the same like you say.