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Joe Biden has imposed MORE sanctions on countries than any other president: The US sanctions 60% of all low income countries (www.thecanary.co)

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[–] PotentialProblem@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was interested and clicked the first source to find this:

As many as 40,000 people may have died in Venezuela as a result of US sanctionsthat made it harder for ordinary citizens to access food, medicine and medical equipment, a new report has claimed.

The report, published by the Centre for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) a progressive, Washington DC-based think tank, says those deaths took place following the imposition of sanctions in the summer of 2017.

Summer of 2017… hmm… which makes me doubt every other word in the article.

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thankfully joe biden didn't just continue trump policies, so that settles that.

oh, wait. we still have a space force, we still have rich people tax cut handout, we still have an embassy moved from tel aviv to jersualem, and we still sanction venezuela.

[–] PotentialProblem@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, but this article is a “Joe Biden Bad” article and immediately cites a report that directly corresponds to a Trump policy… without even giving any indication that it was a Trump policy and that the report was related to a specific time after that policy was instated… 7 years ago. All of this to show that “sanctions are bad” and since Biden has more sanction, Biden bad. If they’re not going to provide critical context, then they’re shitty journalists, they’ve compromised their credibility and it’s not worth reading. Any of their conclusions are suspect. I’m not even defending Biden here…

Also, Joe Biden isn’t even running for president… so what’s the point of the smear campaign?

[–] AmarkuntheGatherer@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

This is not a case of Trump having done bad things and Biden doing nothing. An analogue is if trump were firing a minigun on a bunch of people, he left office, Biden took over and resumed firing.

Also, sanctions by the richest country in history need to be proven to have adverse effects on the imposed in the same way the theory of gravity needs to be proven again: only flat earth type loonies need it so it's merely an exercise, not an academic necessity.