>just found out that international/economic sanctions against countries have been a thing since at least the 1800s
Now that we have that out of the way. Do they even work?
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Josiah Howard
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Josiah Morales
It made Japan sperg out and bomb pearl harbor so it does something.
Generally speaking though a tinpot dictator won't care very much, you should be doing the complete opposite and flooding the country with pepsi, jeans and bigmacs.
Xavier Nelson
Sanctions nowadays have narrowed from targeting all the products of the country, to only targeting the leadership and its ability to make personal financial deals.
So apparently the conclusion is that indeed largescale sactions do not work, since they muddy the waters and make it hard to the target population to disntinguish which economic hardships are the fault of their government and which ones are the fault of the sanctions. This way it can reinforce support for a failing dictatorship.
The only modern day example of a total blockade of one country by another is Cuba, which continues out of sheer pettyness. Not even North Korea was sanctioned as harshly.
Carter Johnson
They do work. Through starving the country. They're usually the first gambits used in warfare to raise moral on your side.
Aaron Lewis
>Cuban embargo was petty
>Lemme point some nukes at your country
>Dude stop not selling me cars lmao
Mason Turner
it has no reason to exist in its current form, similar to your mother
Jose Wilson
Fidel became a communist because of the embargo. It was a knee jerk reaction.
Benjamin Foster
They work, just not against third world shitholes and autocracies where the people are already starving and no one cares.
This is why they don't do much against Russia, NK etc
Zachary Brooks
They work outside of North Korea situations where those in power have all the wealth and food anyway so sanctions won't do anything.
Dylan Kelly
they "work" at punishing nations and populations that dare to go against the established order
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Carson Martin
do you think that justifies him trying to nuke the US?
Easton Jackson
They don't work - they bolster internal support because the problems in society can be blamed on external forces.
William Wright
No. But that happened after the embargo, not before.
Gabriel Morales
Castro wanted the nukes as a deterrence to prevent a second US invasion, pretty reasonable position to take if you were Cuban
Sanctions are for the sanctioners usually, not the sanctioned. Makes countries feel like they are doing something. You need a large concerted effort to really make a difference, eg, the sanctions against Iran
Brandon Sanchez
>the physical location of a weapon that is INTERCONTINETAL and goes through space matters
Oliver Torres
Wow you win the brainlet opinion of the month award.
Yes, retard, it matters.
The closer to target the ICBM is launched, from, the less time to detect it, intercept it and evacuate the population.
In fact the Cuban Missile Crisis was the Soviet response to Americans putting ICBMs in Turkey. And in the 1980s there was a whole other crisis with Reagan deploying the Pershing II missiles which could strike Moscow with only a 6-minute warning, which sent the Soviets into a paranoia frenzy that almost triggers WW3 when their nuclear detection system failed in 1983.
What the fuck are you doing on a history board son?
Josiah Walker
They can do nothing or they can do serious damage. It depends on the context. The USA embargoed Britain in the Jefferson presidency, and it didn't do anything. Cuba has been under a harsh embargo for over 50 years and it's done serious damage.
Joseph Hall
He probably gets his history from David Horowitz and Ben Shapiro.
Angel Morris
Fucking saved.
Aiden Garcia
>phonecuck normie
Adrian Scott
That wasn't even funny.
Nathan Hernandez
(((David Horowitz))) (((Ben shapiro)))
Henry Ward
Thanks for explaining the joke newfag
Brody Brown
>This is why they don't do much against Russia
lol
>NK etc
Because they still get to trade with the Chinese