How Aggressive Sanctions Against Putin and Russia over Ukraine Could Backfire
Sanctions aren’t really intended to punish. They’re intended to change behavior. And often they do—but for the worse.
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Sanctions aren’t really intended to punish. They’re intended to change behavior. And often they do—but for the worse.
One expert says sanctions can be particularly effective when targeted at a narrow issue, but may not be powerful enough in many cases to achieve more ambitious aims.
This MintPress study reveals that ninety percent of recent opinion articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal have taken a hawkish view on the Ukraine conflict written by pundits tied to the national security...
There might be reasons to think the CNN story is legit, I just can't come up with one.