The Lancet Global Health, one of the most famous medical journal, has published an article on the victims due to economic sanctions for half a century, from 1971 to 2021 in 152 countries. Economic sanctions and mortality rate are positively and significantly proportionate. The casualities due to sanctions are estimated annually 564,258. Children under 5 years of age is most vulnerable to them. The author says it is comparable to the casualities by arm conflicts. The editorial of this journal points out it is much worse than the latter; the latter is annually 106,000.
The author stressed that the USA and Eu, most likely to take economic and unilateral sanctions as a tool to realize any objective in the international politics, should be careful on the negative effect on the population in the developing countries. Even the sanctions imposed by UN are not free from this adverse effect of sanctions.
Wag the Dog?...It is out of argument.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(25)00189-5/fulltext
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