Ah yes, because the first THIRTEEN TIMES worked out so great. 14th times a charm or whatever…
and if 14 doesnt work, maybe 88 will
Please one more sanction bro, it’ll totally work this time bro, I swear this is the last one, I’ll quit after this
If decades of sanctions didn’t work on the Republic of Cuba, there is no reason to think that they’ll work on the Russian Federation either.
Normally I am reluctant to ascribe the upper classes’ decisions to blockheadedness, but I honestly don’t know how else to explain why they’re wasting a huge fuckload of tax dollars on more sanctions. Do they just desperately need an excuse to further impoverish us?
The problem with the modern US government is so many Americans after the 80s and especially after the USSR’s illegal dissolution ACTUALLY LEGITIMATELY FUCKING BELIEVE the neoliberal propaganda. Cuba is a relatively small island with sugar, coffee and tobacco being its greatest natural resources… great for enjoyment not so much for global geopolitical control.
Russia, on the other hand, is the largest nation on earth by landmass rich in iron, natural gas, oil, etc etc etc. cutting it off (especially given that their also cut off nations of Iran and the DPRK are right next to them) is absolutely pointless. All it will do is force Russia into cutting itself off from the West it desperately tried to connect with after 1991. Don’t interrupt an enemy making a mistake, but FFS, they’re clearly fucking themselves over. Especially since all it does is make BRICS+ stronger.
they drank their own kool-aid!
Nobody ever accused her of being smart.
Shadow banking network abroad
Imagine if Bank of America blatantly stole a huge amount of money from you, then got on twitter to smear you, because you closed your account and started using a credit union instead.
The strategy of sanctioning the country you are economically reliant on, but who is not reliant on you, has been doing gangbusters so far. This will really be the masterstroke that finishes them off. Them being an intentionally ambigious pronoun usage here.
Also, Putin’s Shadow Fleet sounds kind of badass, I am not going to lie.
I would feel so stupid saying “our 14th sanctions package” clearly it’s not working your fruitcake!
“well, this is our 20th sanction. this one will surely destroy putin this time”
Nazi says what
In order for the sanctions to work, you have to sanction a lot more countries than just Russia or Belarus because - big surprise - alternate trade networks exist.
