Sanctions are targeted warfare, and they do kill
If Americans want to show solidarity with the people of these countries, the best thing we can do is stop standing on their necks.
If Americans want to show solidarity with the people of these countries, the best thing we can do is stop standing on their necks.
Even if the JCPOA restart falls through and sanctions remain in place, a warming is happening in Tehran’s immediate neighborhood.
Readers are stunned at what 12 months of COVID have done to US children. Imagine how a generation of Iraqis have fared under our wars.
To avoid sanctions, countries are actively reopening moribund routes and creating greater connectivity across the Middle East and Asia.
The USSR prevented its citizens from traveling to the West during the Cold War, mimicking that now would be entirely counterproductive.
The West has possibly helped to spark a destabilizing partnership that will be difficult to contain once set into motion.
Today’s announcement suggests Biden is doubling down on maximum pressure while the nuclear deal is all but withering on the vine. (Video)
Washington’s acrimonious relationship with Caracas serves neither country’s interests, opening up oil trade can help bring down prices.
Open ended economic penalties with ill-defined goals hardly ever change the behavior of their targets.
20 million are going hungry as frozen funds and equally frozen diplomacy keep this country in a frightening state of limbo.
The country’s population of 25 million unvaccinated people offers COVID an extraordinary opportunity not only to spread but also to mutate.
Reorganizing global trade and markets based on security interests and ‘values’ could have significant costs
While it may seem politically convenient to blame the 8-week invasion for everything, it is supremely deceptive to do so.
The US should learn lessons from the Cold War when economic embargoes left it increasingly isolated.
The ‘great expropriation’ will come to be regarded as a turning point — one which the great powers of the world will likely regret.
The Taliban takeover pummeled the country’s economic sector; how can the international community help the Afghan people survive?
If Washington is wise, it won’t punish its friends for acting in their own interests.
Washington wants Dhaka to join its regional coalition meant to contain China, but sanctions might not be the way to do it.
Negotiations will be admittedly hard, but the alternative is truly too dangerous and difficult to contemplate.
If not they could bleed the Russian people, impact the global economy, and fuel long-term conflict on the ground.
The US Treasury waiver will allow commercial transactions and cross-border trade previously prohibited under anti-Taliban sanctions.