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Much of the "sanctions don't work" was looking back at the relatively toothless sanctions put in place before. The new sanctions are hardly toothless.
by nitwit005 5y ago
Much of the "sanctions don't work" was looking back at the relatively toothless sanctions put in place before. The new sanctions are hardly toothless.
- rich_sasha 5y agoFurthermore, the post-2014 sanctions did actually bite quite hard. They weren’t designed to obliterate, rather to discourage further action. And they would have done, had Russia acted reasonably.
- olsonjeffery 5y agoSo the sanctions would of worked, except that they didn’t?
- rich_sasha 5y agoThey worked as an incentive to not continue. Russia insisted in shooting itself in the foot.
- lttlrck 5y agoSanctions are a tool of persuasion. Sometimes persuasion doesn't work?