The Center for Economic and Policy Research brought together leading experts in the study of economic sanctions to help to answer a critical, but often-ignored, question: What are the human consequences of US economic sanctions?
Assessing a wide range of evidence, the findings of our panelists were unanimous: economic sanctions, even when touted as targeted, often have widespread deleterious effects on entire national economies, and therefore severely harm millions of everyday people.
People in Europe are currently discovering these first hand.
They’re realizing that the only people not suffering is the ruling class that’s imposing and enforcing these sanctions. Crazy coincidence right?
indeed
Contrary to other victims though, they can stop it at any time, or at least could if our resident euro enthusiasts were correct about European states sovereignity.
To be fair, it’s not like regular people living under western regimes have much of a say. Look at all the protests the French are doing, the regime doesn’t care.
Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie be like