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Sanctions generate meaningful change only about forty per cent of the time. Years of sanctions failed in North Korea, Venezuela, and Iraq. Cuba has faced layers of U.S. trade and arms embargoes since 1960. 

The Communist regime is still in power. The Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, faced multiple sanctions after the Arab Spring uprising, in 2011, turned into a civil war. Yet Assad is still firmly entrenched in Damascus. 

Sanctions are often sagas. Success in South Africa took three decades. The Iran model, which the U.S. has invoked for Russia, has had gyrating effects. 

Sanctions also produce heartbreak. 

The agony is the differential in timing. A gun, shell, or bomb can kill in seconds. Sanctions take a comparative eon in the scheme of war or a humanitarian crisis. 

 “They rarely work,” Benn Steil, of the Council on Foreign Relations, said. “But, when they do work, they tend to take a very long time.”

So sanctions really is a mean of creating a humanitarian crisis. It impacts the poor people in the society. 

President Biden Said "expect Food Shortage." A heart worming message to the world during the Easter Holidays.  Just a thought.