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Effects of international sanctions on age-specific mortality: a cross-national panel data analysis (www.thelancet.com)
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A new paper published in The Lancet — one of the world's most respected health journals — finds that sanctions imposed by the West on developing countries have caused 38 million deaths since 1971.

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[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago

Did Reagan administration sanction Iraq while providing them with weapons for their war against Iran?
IfaIk, the sanctions were established later, after the invasion of Kuwait in 1990, under George H. W. Bush.

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