According to Alistair Crooke, who was often right about the Syrian war, one egregious folly was the American belief that Russia could be defeated by economic sanctions. Do they read no history? When did sanctions ever overturn a government? Why are the Americans doing untold harm by sanctions against Syria, for heaven's sake? To hurt Iran but Iran is not a threat. Or sanctions against Iran herself, Cuba absurdly, the Taliban in Afghanistan or Venezuela? Why?
The decision of Ukraine to stop negotiating with Putin was disastrous. David P. Goldman tweeted recently:
'It wasn't only Biden who believed that sanctions would destroy Russia. A couple of weeks later, I attended a private conference with several former Republican cabinet members, who all believed the same thing. We shouldn't give Putin an off-ramp, one of them said: Putin and Xi are locked in a car headed downhill toward a brick wall and we should let them crash. The whole of the uniparty US foreign policy elite signed on to this idiocy. Now that Putin has handed their heads to them, they want to double down to cover up their blunders.'
While it's true that sanctions are not effective, it's completely false that Putin has 'handed their heads to didn't in any kind of way. That's just a lie coming from westerners who like Putin more than the West.
ReplyDeleteWhen will people learn not to say lie when they mean untrue?
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