Top Dem senator assails Biden on Cuba policy
The president promised during the campaign to reverse Trump’s failing sanctions policies and so far has yet to follow through.
The president promised during the campaign to reverse Trump’s failing sanctions policies and so far has yet to follow through.
The cruel irony is Washington supports most of the world’s autocratic nations with weapons and money.
Economic sanctions have demonstrably failed to change North Korean behavior. So, when is the world going to try something new?
Whether it’s Ethiopia, Belarus, or Nicaragua, economic warfare rarely works and often winds up being counterproductive.
One can loathe the man and still oppose Biden’s attempts to isolate the country with the same old coercive strategies.
Aside from avoiding U.S. sanctions, Iran’s new president needs to mollify hardliners and separate himself from his predecessor.
Washington’s active support for dissidents puts everything in peril, most importantly, the people it wants to help.
Congress can change that by including a House-passed amendment into the final version of this year’s National Defense Authorization Act.
Hopefully it will be more than tinkering around the edges — fundamental changes in how they are used, if at all, are in order.
They’ve done nothing to change the country’s behavior, while being used to justify its leaders’ authoritarianism.
One expert’s recent claim that ‘nobody is killed’ when indiscriminate sanctions become economic warfare flies in the face of all evidence.
US domestic politics are overshadowing multiple crises on the island nation, which only prolongs the suffering of the Cuban people.
The new Iranian administration may agree on a revised JCPOA with the U.S. But if the economic benefits are paltry, political support will drain away.
Sanctions like those imposed on Cuba fail to achieve their stated policy objectives and create misery for millions of innocent people.
The U.S. must find ways of advocating for basic democratic principles without using them as a cudgel to bash Beijing.
The administration may be overhauling punitive sanctions — but some countries will still be treated differently than others.
Respect for life, dignity, and liberty should undergird foreign policy. But that doesn’t justify reckless, harmful intervention.
If diplomacy really is back, President Biden should reconsider ineffective economic penalties used to solve complex issues.
A day after ending a war in Afghanistan, Biden seems to be going down the road of a new one with Moscow.
After the Cold War, Washington has relied on economic warfare to achieve its goals, but it hardly ever works.
The real political work will have to be done in DC, not Vienna, thanks to the new terror embargoes slapped on by Trump.