RT @BenjaminNorton
Sanctions are not an alternative to war; they are an even more deadly form of unconventional warfare.
Western sanctions killed roughly 38 million people over 50 years.
The US government has imposed sanctions on approximately one-third of the countries on Earth, including more than 60% of low-income nations, according to a 2024 report in the Washington Post.
A peer-reviewed academic article published in 2025 in the leading medical journal The Lancet concluded “that sanctions do kill: economic sanctions imposed by the USA or the EU were associated with 564,258 deaths … annually from 1971 to 2021, higher than the annual number of battle-related casualties (106,000 deaths)”.
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2026/05/09/trump-pirates-iran-ships-china-us-sanctions/
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