US Surge in Financial Sanctions Called Inhumane by
Lawyers
US sanctions-based foreign policy is mindless and
heartless
The message from Washington to people living in
countries south of the US is clear: unless you have a government that we
approve of, we will make your life hell. That’s often called “democracy
promotion”. Seriously!
As Yale historian Greg Grandin has argued in Empire’s
Workshop: Latin America, the United States and the Making of an Imperial
Republic, economic warfare, gunboat diplomacy, and state subversion were
methods of US foreign policy first practised and perfected in Latin America
before they were applied elsewhere.
The Human Consequences of Economic Sanctions
America’s Love of Sanctions Will Be Its Downfall
Measures intended to punish autocrats are eroding the very Western order
they were meant to preserve.
The United States needs to rethink its addiction to
sanctions. They’re backfiring.