When sanctions result in a population starving, or children dying because they don't get medical care because of sanctions, they are crimes against humanity.
>They should share some of the pain.
Such utter totalitarian-authoritarian nonsense. Did 9/11 stop the US from bombing innocent people in the Middle East?
Maybe they are not currently but they could. Look at Cuba, US sanctions prevent even common medicine and food from being imported.
I was on the receiving end of sanction (better say my parents, I was young living with them) in Yugoslavia. Sanctions just produced extreme poverty, hyperinflation and give more reason to bad actors/dictators to appoint even more extreme measures and justifications for them. Guys who are in power can even more easily hold to the power and use force against the populous. Destroying free media and maxing propaganda and sadly average person falls for propaganda if it is fed to him daily.
IDK of one good example where sanctions toppled a dictator, Cuba, Yugoslavia, North Korea, Iran, Russia, etc...
Not saying nothing should be done, but this wide spread canceling of everything Russian will hurt ordinary people who will be in even less power to do something now.
> Sanctions just produced extreme poverty, hyperinflation and give more reason to bad actors/dictators to appoint even more extreme measures and justifications for them.
No, bad actors/dictators produce extreme poverty and hyperinflation.
> Guys who are in power can even more easily hold to the power and use force against the populous.
Too bad for the populace. Maybe they should have got off their arses and got rid of the bad guys a little earlier, eh?
> Destroying free media and maxing propaganda and sadly average person falls for propaganda if it is fed to him daily.
Do you really think it's sanctions from the West that have turned Russian media into propaganda mouthpieces?
Your experience is valid and interesting. Still, unless you’ve got a better alternative, and until sanctions do actually cause those potential harms, I think they are the best weapons we have.
So .. Why are we supporting the KSA by shipping it weapons and refuelling their planes, then?
Because we learned that genocide by sanctions is an effective weapon, as per Iraq, Libya, etc. Alongside the children of Yemen, we are directing this same policy at the children of Russia.
>They should share some of the pain.
Such utter totalitarian-authoritarian nonsense. Did 9/11 stop the US from bombing innocent people in the Middle East?