Re: [hrpc] Censorship

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One can find many good articles on sanctions and their history, for
example one paywalled Economist article:

  https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/04/22/sanctions-are-now-a-central-tool-of-governments-foreign-policy

Brief Summary:

1. Modern economic sanction regimes arose from the League of Nations
as an alternative to warfare after the War To End All Wars #1.

2. An historical review of the past 100 years indicates they only very
rarely work except perhaps in situations where the targeted party is
not very committed to whatever the others wish changed.

More often the target finds ways to retaliate (e.g., the US sanctions
China, China sanctions the US.)

3. One consistent failure of sanctions is they're rarely removed other
than the rare case where some measurable compliance is achieved.

The US has had severe sanctions against Cuba for well over 50
years. Rather than considering their goals and whether they should or
should not continue to be pursued the sanctions themselves become an
internal political football, a litmus test of which side one is on
philosophically (e.g., do you or do you not tolerate small, tropical
communist governments.)

Which is why I keep asking those who would like to impose sanctions
such as interfering with Russia's internet connectivity: Under what
specific circumstances would you end those sanctions?

-- 
        -Barry Shein

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