Sanctions..

 

US-led sanctions against Russia have not gone down well with developing countries.

Not a single country in the entire African continent, Middle East or Latin America has toed the US line. Is it again a case of the West versus the rest?

The claim that the West’s sanctions represent the will of the international community is therefore neither accurate nor factual.

One crucial factor that has been little mentioned in Western mainstream media is the fact that these sanctions clash with the interests of the developing world. 

Over the decades, developing countries have learned that Western sanctions, designed to advance the interests of the enforcers, will never do them any good.

Instead, such measures wreak economic devastation and human misery upon the countries at the receiving end, as demonstrated in Syria and Afghanistan, where children go to bed hungry and patients wither away for lack of essential medicine, thanks to the US’ crushing sanctions.

Foreign Policy that cares for democracy and the people.  Just a thought.

Furthermore, as the Chinese saying goes, a fire at the city gates is a calamity for the fish in the moat; the adverse effects of sanctions against one country too often spill over into other parts of the world, particularly poor countries.