The list of individuals and entities sanctioned by the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (Ofac) now runs to 2,206 pages and lists more than 12,000 names. Their use has accelerated sharply in the past decade as successive US presidents have opted for an apparently low-cost, bloodless solution to foreign policy problems.
This is a bit of an odd claim. While the reality is that sanctions result in increased poverty resulting in higher rates of death among the population, the US likes to claim that it will encourage the people to rise up against their " authoritarian" government. Are they expecting the revolution to be without spilled blood?
I think all of that is just a narrative they feed the hoi polloi, I suspect that people doing the sanctions know exactly what the sanctions accomplish which is to keep countries from being able to develop.
Oh yeah for sure. It’s just funny how transparently bullshit this claim is, but I guess their target audience still won’t see through it.
Indeed, turns out it’s really easy to convince people of things they want to believe. People in the west like to think of themselves as being noble, enlightened, and generally superior to everyone else. So, obviously the goal of the sanctions must be to help liberate people stuck living in inferior authoritarian regimes.
For the past two months, archive.today links have been sending me to an infinite CAPTCHA loops, and since they are shortened/obfuscated URLs, I can’t even extract the original URLs that they are shortening.
Oh that happened to me too, seems like it gets upset with some FF plugins for me. Here’s the original https://www.ft.com/content/3888bdba-d0d6-49a1-9e78-4d07ce458f42
