It's not good because the sanctions shouldn't be there in the first place
"Man who beats wife daily promises to not do so for five months, will resume"
It's also probably largely fake since the biggest damage is second order effects of the sanctions regime. If, for example, financial institutions refuse to handle money for Syria due to fear of reprisal then it doesn't matter.
Akshyually there is no 6 month period in which 6 months pass in 180 or less.
(This is a made up statistic, but 50% percent of made up statistics are accurate.)
That's weird, I was told the sanctions don't hurt regular people, why on earth would they need to be removed in the event of a disaster if they don't intercept people getting things they need? :thinking-about-it:
Do they even say it doesn't hurt regular people? I think they just skip out on talking about the details completely. Instead focusing on how they're punishing the regime. But when push comes to shove they will admit it hurts regular people, but that is okay because it encourages them to overthrow the regime.
The most famous example I can think of is when Madeleine Albright was asked if 500,000 dead Iraqi children due to US sanctions was worth it, and she said yes.
Interesting. They must hate Cuba so much for what happened in the 50s because I don't think they ever got an exemption for anything
Well Syrians are a bit closer to being white on the chart
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The only country they hate more than Cuba may be Haiti
The last time Biden did something good, it was withdrawing from Afghanistan. We now understand that this was probably done to prepare for war with Russia. (It also led to lots of people in Afghanistan starving, plus the Taliban taking over.) This is the second good thing he has done since becoming president. It’s hard to believe he isn’t doing it for ulterior motives, especially because this undermines the USA’s seizure of Syrian oil fields not to mention amerikkka’s Kurdish allies in the area. Maybe Biden’s also doing it to undermine Erdogan somehow since that dude is constantly playing like eight different sides at the same time?
This basically does nothing, like it might make it easier for some aid groups to get emergency supplies but most companies and organizations will still not interact with Syria. If they unilaterally took down all sanctions on Syria for 180 days, that might do something, but they are strictly limiting it to earthquake related stuff.
This is like the "humanitarian exemption" the US supposedly has in all of their sanctions. Like on paper you can sell food and medicine to Iran but there is so much scrutiny by the US that it makes trade functionally impossible and if you try you end up on the US shitlist and they come down on you in other areas. Or they will just declare that the insulin you were selling was going to terrorists and destroy your access to banking anyways. The exemption is literally just there to make liberals feel better.
I read on Twitter this didn’t apply to people and orgs sanctioned previously or to the govt of Syria. Dunno if that’s true but if it is then that means it applies to basically only cia funded ngos that’ll use the money for regime change.
Edit: https://mobile.twitter.com/venanalysis/status/1624155364189954048
Just read the sanctions that this suspends (link) and from what I can tell the only things that these specific sanctions block are payment processing, foreign investment and purchasing property in Syria. They also include trading in Syrian petroleum products but the exemption doesn't allow that. The only useful thing the exemption allows is payment processing but that's already technically allowed in these specific sanctions, and this exemption only applies to the 2014 sanctions, not the more brutal Caesar Sanctions.
So it's along similar lines to when Biden pardoned federal marijuana convictions? Makes for a decent headline but ultimately does little to nothing
As people have said, it is unlikely that aid organizations will do anything even with payment processing opened up. Stuff like this can easily be traced to 'terrorism organizations' and then used to prosecute you. Same thing happened after 9/11 to Muslim aid groups.
This feels like the same shit that happened with COVID. This is how many treats would totally could give you…… buuuuut yeah fuck you
