there's only two tools in the Western toolkit: sanctions (for bad countries) and austerity (for their own countries). they get extremely confused when neither of them work, and then assume that they haven't been pressing either hard enough and so just keep mashing them over and over again
When do only the most austere level of business with your 'enemies' that is called sanctions, and when you punish the poor with sanctions that is called austerity.
there's only two tools in the Western toolkit: sanctions (for bad countries) and austerity (for their own countries). they get extremely confused when neither of them work, and then assume that they haven't been pressing either hard enough and so just keep mashing them over and over again
When do only the most austere level of business with your 'enemies' that is called sanctions, and when you punish the poor with sanctions that is called austerity.
Don’t forget genocide!