Interesting article. The US has 15000 sanctions which is three times the amount of the next highest country - covering 1/3 all the countries in the world. 60% of the poorest countries in the world are sanctioned by the US. In many cases they accomplish nothing beyond making the poorest people in those countries suffer.
“It is the only thing between diplomacy and war and as such has become the most important foreign policy tool in the U.S. arsenal. And yet, nobody in government is sure this whole strategy is even working.”
Bill Reinsch,
a former Commerce Department official and now the Scholl chair in international business at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
