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> If a country isn’t actively bearing arms against us or our allies, we shouldn’t have sanctions on them. I'd add another category here, sanctions were crucial
by klyrs 3y ago
> If a country isn’t actively bearing arms against us or our allies, we shouldn’t have sanctions on them.
I'd add another category here, sanctions were crucial to end the South African apartheid.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> sanctions were crucial to end the South African apartheid I think there’s a genuine exception for globally-coördinated sanctions. That said, South Africa was a special case. The USSR had just collapsed. The West had global hegemony. Outside that context, I wouldn’t expect the experiment to replicate.
- simfree 3y agoRhodesia, Nicaragua and Thailand all ended up with regime change in part due to sanctions making life more difficult.