Every year, sanctions kill more people than wars : Peoples Dispatch
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Between 2010 and 2021, unilateral sanctions caused over 500,000 deaths annually, surpassing yearly global deaths from armed conflict.
    • Gustephan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      5 days ago

      Notice how the study conveniently cuts off right before the meat grinder that is the Russia Ukraine war started. I’d imagine the methodology of the study disproves the conclusion they made if you don’t cherrypick the data. I wonder who would benefit from doing an obviously bunk study to convince people think that sanctions are worse than wars?

        • Gustephan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          5 days ago

          You went further than I did haha. I formed my opinion after reading the title of post and the “Between 2010 and 2021” at the beginning of the preview, then skimmed the article to see if I was off base. I’ve spent enough of my life trying to get/maintain grant funding from fascists to know what it means when the data is that blatantly cherrypicked.

  • Maeve@kbin.earth
    74·
    5 days ago

    Sanctions, embargos, tomato, potato.

    It’s a serious issue, and if the USA can lift them on Syria under their terrorist puppet preferred president because they acknowledge the cruelty of them, they can surely lift them everywhere else and choose diplomacy, rather than war, starvation, and other collective punishments.