Joe Biden has imposed MORE sanctions on countries than any other president: The US sanctions 60% of all low income countries

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Joe Biden has imposed MORE sanctions on countries than any other president

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Joe Biden has imposed MORE sanctions on countries than any other president: The US sanctions 60% of all low income countries

www.thecanary.co /global/world-news/2024/07/26/us-sanctions-which-countries/

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Joe Biden has imposed MORE sanctions on countries than any other president: The US sanctions 60% of all low income countries

www.thecanary.co /global/world-news/2024/07/26/us-sanctions-which-countries/

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I was interested and clicked the first source to find this:
As many as 40,000 people may have died in Venezuela as a result of US sanctionsthat made it harder for ordinary citizens to access food, medicine and medical equipment, a new report has claimed.
The report, published by the Centre for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) a progressive, Washington DC-based think tank, says those deaths took place following the imposition of sanctions in the summer of 2017.
Summer of 2017… hmm… which makes me doubt every other word in the article.
- Thankfully joe biden didn't just continue trump policies, so that settles that.
  oh, wait. we still have a space force, we still have rich people tax cut handout, we still have an embassy moved from tel aviv to jersualem, and we still sanction venezuela.
  
  Sure, but this article is a “Joe Biden Bad” article and immediately cites a report that directly corresponds to a Trump policy… without even giving any indication that it was a Trump policy and that the report was related to a specific time after that policy was instated… 7 years ago. All of this to show that “sanctions are bad” and since Biden has more sanction, Biden bad. If they’re not going to provide critical context, then they’re shitty journalists, they’ve compromised their credibility and it’s not worth reading. Any of their conclusions are suspect. I’m not even defending Biden here…
  Also, Joe Biden isn’t even running for president… so what’s the point of the smear campaign?
- Yeah, remember when those sanctions ended?
  oh wait
Sanctions are a form of diplomacy. Why the hell would we support a foreign government with problematic policies and conflicts of interest?
Think of all of the people we can save if we just give north Korea piles of money!
- Sanctions are a modern form of siege warfare that affords western regimes a path towards murdering innocent people while their morally bankrupt public looks the other way.
  
  That is a misrepresentation and over simplification of a diplomatic tool. There are many kinds of sanctions and they are put into place for many reasons. Why should we let dictators use our financial institutions? Why would we let corrupt individuals use us to enrich their selves at the cost of their own people? Why would we not use our influence to push for fair, democratic elections?
- no, sanctions are economic warfare. the use of them has just become habitual because the media decided to stop giving a shit.
  perhaps you've seen the clip of secretary albright on 60 minutes?

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