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When conflicts between nations arise, economic sanctions are often employed as an alternative to physical warfare. But do these sanctions target the right people? Evidence reveals that ordinary citizens in sanctioned countries have borne the consequences. And are they effective? Heavily sanctioned Russia continues to prosper economically.
Economic sanctions have a long and brutal history, almost as long as the history of war itself. What they don’t have— especially in recent memory— is
Economic sanctions which claim to target authoritarian governments and wealthy profiteers of global conflicts only hurt innocent civilian populations.
That will have profound human consequences. and it is just another example of russian callousness and disregard for human lives. >> reporter: the ukrainians say they want to salvage the grain deal but will also continue fighting hard to take all of their territory back including crimea, as ukraine's president recently told our own erin burnett. >> translator: we cannot imagine ukraine without crimea, and while crimea is under the russian occupation, it means only one thing, war is not over yet. >> and jake, the destruction of the bridge could become a big long-term problem for vladimir putin a...
The middle of last year. we're hearing the white house in the last hour or so responding to russia's decision to pull out of that grain deal, calling it dangerous and irresponsible. they're pointing out since russia announced that just today, prices on those commodities have already jumped up several percentage points. that's really fueling the concern about how this is going to worsen global food insecurity. as that news broke, u.s. aid administrator sam power was in ukraine. our nbc news team was there on the ground with her. here's what she had to say. >> this is a reckless decision that wi...