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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/02/every-year-sanctions-kill-more-people-than-wars/
Between 2010 and 2021, unilateral sanctions caused over 500,000 deaths annually, surpassing yearly global deaths from armed conflict.
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So…war is better?
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?
Maybe it’s just 6 am brain and enshittified search tools, but I couldn’t find the study at all.
Maeve@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
Sanctions, embargos, tomato, potato.
It's a serious issue, and if the USA can lift them on Syria under their
terrorist puppetpreferred 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.