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And yet sanctions never work as a deterrent. Cuba is still socialist after 60 years of sanctions. Great deterrent! No, sanctions just punish generation after ge

And yet sanctions never work as a deterrent. Cuba is still socialist after 60 years of sanctions. Great deterrent! No, sanctions just punish generation after generation of innocent people and serve no other purpose. If you still mantain that the purpose is deterrence, then you must be a fool or worse, since it never works! Can't you learn from the past? Edit: Before you even dig out some article like this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/04/28/13-times-that-economic-sanctions-really-worked/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/04/28... I will make an important point: sanctions CAN work only to prevent something from happening. Once that happened, e.g. the war started, there's no sanction that can stop it and that's exactly when sanctions stop being a deterrent and start being a punishment.

trasz 4y ago
And the fact that Russia is not capable of manufacturing tanks anymore has nothing to do whatsoever with sanctions?
The_Colonel 4y ago
> No, sanctions just punish generation after generation of innocent people and serve no other purpose. They are pretty effective at preventing future wars. This war happened only because Russia wasn't crippled enough after 2014.
layer8 4y ago
Obviously you have a much stronger opinion on that than I do, but at the very least, sanctions should deter other countries from acting in a similar fashion. For example, if — hypothetically — China is considering invading Taiwan, they will have to factor in that the Western world will stop doing business with them. If the West hadn’t put sanctions in place for Russia, that would lessen the concern for China. Maybe you think that isn’t worth it — that’s a valid personal judgement of course.