Гост постът днес осветлява отново безсилието на политиците за намиране на начини за ефективно смекчаване на международните конфликти.
The Theory of Economic Sanctions Is Wrong
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/03/michael-s-rozeff/the-evil-of-economic-sanctions/
The U.S. is preparing economic sanctions against Russia. These are directed in the main at Russian citizens and at western citizens doing business with Russian citizens. Sanctions harm the general populations of the target countries. The harms done to Iraq’s and Iran’s people by sanctions are widely recognized. Madeleine Albright accepted the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children as a consequence of U.S. sanctions against Iraq.
The theory behind sanctions is to hurt, immiserate and kill as many innocent people as possible in a country until its leadership caves in to U.S. demands. The theory behind it is mass murder or a situation of mass misery that’s intolerable. This theory is wrong and does wrong in targeting innocent people and in expecting that their misery will translate into a policy change of their government.
Russians are led by a gang just as the U.S. is led by a gang. The right way to proceed is for the gang leaders to resolve their differences among themselves. The citizens of each country are remote from the squabbles of their government’s leaders. It is very, very difficult, indeed impossible, to assign responsibility for what Obama and Putin do to American and Russian voters. How does a single vote of anyone translate into making Obama and Putin an agent who is carrying out the will and designs of that person? It doesn’t because one’s control over the policies of that government are nil. We are stuck with these gangs and states at the moment. We are cogs in a system that’s extremely difficult to change.
The U.S. is preparing economic sanctions against Russia. These are directed in the main at Russian citizens and at western citizens doing business with Russian citizens. Sanctions harm the general populations of the target countries. The harms done to Iraq’s and Iran’s people by sanctions are widely recognized. Madeleine Albright accepted the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children as a consequence of U.S. sanctions against Iraq.
The theory behind sanctions is to hurt, immiserate and kill as many innocent people as possible in a country until its leadership caves in to U.S. demands. The theory behind it is mass murder or a situation of mass misery that’s intolerable. This theory is wrong and does wrong in targeting innocent people and in expecting that their misery will translate into a policy change of their government.
Russians are led by a gang just as the U.S. is led by a gang. The right way to proceed is for the gang leaders to resolve their differences among themselves. The citizens of each country are remote from the squabbles of their government’s leaders. It is very, very difficult, indeed impossible, to assign responsibility for what Obama and Putin do to American and Russian voters. How does a single vote of anyone translate into making Obama and Putin an agent who is carrying out the will and designs of that person? It doesn’t because one’s control over the policies of that government are nil. We are stuck with these gangs and states at the moment. We are cogs in a system that’s extremely difficult to change.
The theory of sanctions is wrong in targeting innocent populations.
The judgments, procedures, and methods that bring about and rationalize the sanctions instituted by the U.S. have been very wrong too.
The consequences of the sanctions have been wrong as well. They have led to protracted struggles and, in some cases, to wars, because the punishments dished out to the populations didn’t result in changes in the policies of the leaders. In the U.S., this should be perfectly understandable. The people elected Obama to make certain changes that he promised. In all the important cases, he didn’t do it. He did the opposite. He is currently sitting with the highest disapproval ratings of his terms and the lowest approval, but he is not altering his policies at all. This is occurring in a country whose government brags about its having a responsive democracy. Why should it be expected that some other nation with a less responsive system should be able to influence their leaders when the people’s misery multiplies?
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