Tag: iraq

armed-joy:

peteseeger:

marxism-leninism-memeism:

femoids:

i’m not sure why economic sanctions are considered the peaceful alternative to war they literally make poverty and daily life in countries they’re implemented against worse which…leads to conflict and suffering

the rise in iraqi infant mortality after the initial implementation of sanctions has been estimated to result in the deaths of over five hundred thousand children

Sanctions almost never have any impact on the ruling elite of countries on which they’re imposed – the impact is almost universally on the citizenry.

sanctions are rarely explained in the public sphere – i think if the word was substituted with ‘interdicting medical supplies’ and ‘making food exorbitantly expensive’, just about everyone would immediately associate them with violence.

theyre also treated as a legitimate policy option, when they’ve really only come
into routine implementation since the wave of global privatization (through debt securitzation iirc) in the ‘80s. just an ideological slam dunk for neoliberalism.

and your average american is so insulated from this country’s permant war that everything short of cnn broadcasting overnight air strikes in starlight just seems like harsh diplomacy.