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Sabotaging your own military's weapons still sounds an awful lot like treason
Sanctions have never ever in human history worked, so more like sabotaging one's placebos...
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"Go beat/kill this guy" is violence, yet it's just words. Putin haven't killed people with his bare hands(at least for a few years...)But who wouldn't call him violent? If your sanctions cause people to die, of hunger, sickness or anything else, it's violence. I'm not against sanctions depending on the circumstances, but you're just wrong
Sanctions are saying “we will not trade with you”. Refusing to trade is violence? Is it violence if you walk past a homeless guy who is hungry and you don’t give him food?
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"Go beat/kill this guy" is violence, yet it's just words. Putin haven't killed people with his bare hands(at least for a few years...)But who wouldn't call him violent? If your sanctions cause people to die, of hunger, sickness or anything else, it's violence. I'm not against sanctions depending on the circumstances, but you're just wrong
1. "Go beat/kill this guy" is specific targeted incitement. 2. Sanctions are not the same as a blockade. What you're describing is a blockade. To be more specific, suspending trade is not the same an active blockade. I haven't seen any indication to see the current sanctions could even function as a blockade.
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He was imprisoned for teaching. You have to construct quite a mental abstraction for that to be a legitimate criminal offense.
You say it like he was teaching the gospel of Christ. Teaching a hostile foreign power how to evade sanctions is a crime for a reason, and if he wants to be a martyr against that principle then let him be one.
Teaching itself is never inherently harmful. Sanctions are authoritarian nonsense.
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Sabotaging your own military's weapons still sounds an awful lot like treason
Sanctions have never ever in human history worked, so more like sabotaging one's placebos...
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I think you missed my point. I meant that he will now not have that option.
Sure, but is there a reason to believe he would have done anything different had he been allowed to go on?
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That's not the case with North Korea. Most people don't have access to computers, let alone the internet, so they can't use crypto for their personal finances.
Really? Most households have a cell phone, though internet access is spotty.
https://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-smartphones-2018...
> Despite having connection to an intranet, North Korean smartphone users have to download apps at physical store locations where they can get apps approved by the North Korean government.
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Cyber-warfare is in most instances comparable to sabotage as used in warfare. I can see the point you're making about sanctions being similar to siege warfare. The main difference being that sieges separate you from your own forces and allies in a way that sanctions don't.
They are more like blockades, they just use diplomacy and legal systems instead of parking ships with big guns outside the harbor. And I suppose the difference between a siege and a blockade is pretty much whether or not you fire those big guns into the city.