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.

    • @AgreeableLandscapeM
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      10 months ago

      They’re realizing that the only people not suffering is the ruling class that’s imposing and enforcing these sanctions. Crazy coincidence right?

    • @PolandIsAStateOfMind
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      10 months ago

      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.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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        310 months ago

        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.