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              • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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                3 years ago

                Sanctions are economic penalties taken against a country or person, preventing the use of banking systems, trade, access to necessary resources, or other things. Countries will always prioritize resources going to their elite, and deprioritize resources going to the group's they oppress the most, so the only people affected by sanctions will be the most vulnerable classes of people.

                  • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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                    3 years ago

                    Sanctions as a system will always be at least as ineffective as they have shown to be. Sanctions against the US would likely prove to be even more crushing to the working class and allow the elite to extract even more from them, given how little of a shit the US even pretends to give about its citizens.

                    Diplomacy is the only way. You have to talk to people to convince them to do things.

                  • AllCatsAreBeautiful [he/him]
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                    3 years ago

                    US sanctions are particularly brutal now because of their increasing use of "secondary sanctions" in which any party, American or not, that is found trading with the sanctioned nation/group is put under the same sanctions as that group. All this does is make the workers even more isolated and at the will of a country's leaders, and while the assumption of sanctions is that the people will rebel when material conditions get bad enough and they are dissatisfied NO ONE EVER REBELS ON THEIR OWN WHEN THE US SAYS THEY ARE GOING TO AT ANY POINT IN HISTORY.