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IMHO, sanctions against an autocratic regime do not work; they just make the autocrat stronger. See, for example: Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, North Korea, Cuba, et
by discardorama 11y ago
IMHO, sanctions against an autocratic regime do not work; they just make the autocrat stronger. See, for example: Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, North Korea, Cuba, etc.
Sanctions against a democratic regime (for various definitions of "democracy") can work: for example, Iran, USSR, South Africa, etc.
- nightcracker 11y agoBy what metric do the sanctions against Iran 'work'?
- jonknee 11y agoMany credit the sanctions for Iran's willingness to negotiate.
- tptacek 11y agoWhat possible other reason could they have had to negotiate?
- jonknee 11y agoI'm firmly in the camp that the sanctions were the catalyst.
- pdabbadabba 11y agoFear of war could have been another motivator, I suppose. But I suspect that Iran is well aware of how unpopular such a war is likely to be in the U.S. So, yeah, I agree that it's probably the sanctions more than anything else.
- quonn 11y agoOne could argue that they pushed Iran to agree to the deal that was recently announced.
- dang 11y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9917996 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9917996 and marked it off topic. The comment about sanctions isn't bad, but this thread should be about Cuba, not Iran. Let's keep our slow normalizations after decades of hostility distinct here.