Hayes Brown

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But it seems like too many policymakers these days look at sanctions like “well we don’t like them but we can’t bomb them, so economic punishment it is because reasons.” And the only way to be lifted is to swear full fealty to the U.S. instead of making discrete changes. — PolitiTweet.org

Hayes Brown @HayesBrown

(I think sanctions — especially multilateral ones, doubly so UNSC-authorized ones — are an important tool for coercion short of using force. That’s part of why it’s so frustrating to see them be used not to make room for diplomacy but purely as a punishment.) — PolitiTweet.org