Sanctions Undermining the US Economy Long Term
I have warned, but nobody seems to listen, that war NEVER unfolds when everyone is fat an happy. This stupid decision of imposing sanction under the theory that they will punish the people and cause them to rise up and overthrow their governments fails to ever work Sanction were impose on Cuba in 19
Source: Armstrong Economics
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DW NOTE
Armstrong's premise is correct — sanctions have never produced a popular uprising — but the argument ignores the actual mechanism of failure. Sanctions don't fail because people refuse to revolt. They fail because sanctioned states restructure their trade through non-dollar channels, which is exactly what BRICS economies have spent the past four years doing while the Strait of Hormuz stayed closed and Washington kept adding names to the list.