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steelypan wrote

Economic sanctions actually disproportionately impact the poor people of the targeted country. These poor people feel like their livelihood is being threatened by foreign influences (and in this case, rightly so). This leads to them becoming more right-wing and xenophobic, and often also to wishing for a strong leader who will stamp out the foreign influence.

The end result is not more liberalism, but instead more fascism, as we saw with both Germany and Russia about a century ago.

That's my critique.

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