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Gladwyn d'Souza's avatar

👏 , good catch. Sanctions as an imperial proxy for mass violence through starvation, disease, economic collapse, and covert destabilization, is a potent and valid critique, strongly supported by the devastating humanitarian consequences witnessed in Iraq, and ongoing impacts in Iran, Venezuela, Syria, Cuba and elsewhere. The mechanisms align with the Iran-Contra parallel in terms of pursuing regime change/ behavior modification through indirect, coercive means that inflict massive suffering on civilian populations for resource predation for everything from oil to cheapened labor for banana plantations.

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Arturo Dominguez's avatar

So well said.

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