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Every Year, Sanctions Kill More People Than Wars
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I suggest to count how many more people would Russians kill without sanctions.
Food and medicine aren't subject to sanctions in the case of Russia. AFAIK agricultural machines also aren't yet, despite evidence that some of its components had been reused for military equipment.
Contrast this with sanction on countries like Iran or until recently Syria, that affect food and medicine.
Yes, the EU and the USA should widen sanctions on Russia to cover food and medicine too.
We should do the same to israel right?
we should stop sending unlimited bombs and air defense missiles to Israel too
right
Good
Statements like this only help Russia to claim that Ukrainians and their supporters are genocidal Nazis.
No sane people care about what Russian nazies claim.
By saying to deny medicine and food to a population you only make it more likely that you are perceived in the same way. It is wrong and nothing good comes out of starving and denying medical treatment to people.
EDIT: Wow, people now downvoting opposition to crimes against humanity.
Fuck off, there's only room for hate on Lemmy. You just have to make sure it's directed at the other guys*.
We've been down this road with North Korea. If a country's leadership wants to burn the proverbial furniture and impoverish its people to fuel their war machine, no amount of foreign aid or trade is going to stop the impoverishment, because they will leverage it to offset spending to even more war.
The whole reason why israel didn't collapse is that we keep sending them billions to finance occupation and genocide
Which needs to stop and Israel must be sanctioned both militarily and economically. Still doesn't justify denying them access to food and medicine.
Israel csn produce them by themselves
I suggest to count how many less people will die if we didn't make ourself the enemy of iran and mamy africans countries forcing them to deepen relation with russia
That is a very difficult calculation. But you're welcome to do the math.