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I don't understand how "specialists" keep talking about sanctions "failing"/being bad overall or other comparisons with Germany before WW II and other similar s
by Adrox 5y ago
I don't understand how "specialists" keep talking about sanctions "failing"/being bad overall or other comparisons with Germany before WW II and other similar situations that happened 100! years a go.
And basically forget the last 4 countries the US sanctioned:
Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, North Korea.
These countries are basically failed states and cease to exist international and have basically zero power over their neighbours, and all US goals were achieved with the sanctions:
South America didn't became communist, South Korea and Japan are still there and way better than North Korea, Iran didn't obliterate Israel, etc, etc...
Venezuela doesn't have technology to extract half the oil anymore (check they oil production).
I hope Russia goes the same way.
And I really don't understand why no one talks about the sanctions in Venezuela and Iran, being Iran in population +- half the size or Russia, so not a small country.
- fluoridation 5y agoMore like 10% the size of Russia.
- Adrox 5y agoSorry, I meant in population (edited now). Anyway let's see what happens with the Russian economy after 10 years of sanctions.
- sanxiyn 5y agoThe (stated) goal of sanctions on North Korea was denuclearization. North Korea continued to do nuclear tests and haven't returned to NPT yet.
- Adrox 5y agoThe goal on North Korea is not to invade South Korea or attack Japan. (And also to disable their ability to use nukes against USA). I would say goals were accomplished. We really don't know the state of nuclear missiles there and I could bet they are not in any very good shape...
- sanxiyn 5y agoThat's ridiculous. North Korea is not crazy, there is no conceivable reason why North Korea would use nukes against USA unless regime is attacked. If that was the goal, there was no reason for sanctions whatsoever. Truly, "nukes against USA" is much more ridiculous than Russia's excuse of invading Ukraine, that it is threatened by NATO expansion.
- astkaasa 5y agoNK and SK is still at war, they did not sign a peace contract.
- k__ 5y agoI think so too. The world is much more interconnected today, so sanctions have more power.