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November 2014

November 2014

The uselessness and ineffectiveness of sanction wars

The West's sanctions should not work because they are not supposed to, if their ultimate goal is to change the Kremlin’s strategic policy goal on Ukraine. The West, headed by US President Barack Obama, came to this most obvious conclusion only after imposing a series of increasingly tougher sanctions against Russia, its most prominent citizens and top corporations. However, the Kremlin, by both actions and deeds, has shown that it does not intend to alter its policy on Ukraine. And, indeed, given the historical, social, political, economic and cultural links between Russia and Ukraine, it is Moscow that is expecting the West to change its current poorly-thought-through policy on Ukraine ...

Non-UN sanctions are a direct route to diplomatic impasse international relations

The West's sanctions should not work because they are not supposed to, if their ultimate goal is to change the Kremlin’s goal in Ukraine. For one, it is the Kremlin, given the historical and cultural links between Russia and Ukraine, that is expecting the West to change its current diplomatic policy on Kiev......