"US and vassal states threaten to lock Iran out of moribund economic bloc and into up and coming new one."
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This is hilarious because Iran is already sanctioned to hell and back. G7 really has one tool and that's it. So glad my country joined BRICS and made peace with Iran.
Reminds me of "you are only making it worse for yourself"
US: Let's send weapons to our allies that are at war! Iran: We'll do the same! US: shocked Pikachu face
Lol they still haven't learned that sanctioning these massive countries just backfires
It doesn't though. Raising costs by forcing a country to dodge sanctions is very effective. A supply will never entirely dry up, but it will shrink and become more expensive, and that's enough.
So far sanctioning Russia and China has mainly just sped up the Global South's economic integration and China's becoming self-sufficient. I can see this happening with Iran too since its economy is already somewhat Global South-oriented.
Though of course, sanctioning less developed countries like Cuba, Venezuela, DPRK, and Afganistan does successfully greatly harm their working-class population, and it has.
I think it's a sanction on Iran, which... how much trade is really going between Europe and Iran
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