Good old Sanctions, they stem from the great power of the old time blockades. In blockades nothing would get in or out of a port city without being blown to the depths of the sea. This worked very well, because there was nothing leaving the country or getting in. It is rare that a single country has every resource in the quantity it needs for any production or task, so blocking all trade from ports was very effective. Over time the blockades would cripple the countries and begin to allow for the blockaded to surrender or change their ways.
Todays blockades are sanctions, if your leadership of you country does something stupid you better believe that we will shut down a portion of the stuff you probably don’t need. To make things worse there is usually no enforcement or punishments for these sanctions if broken. So there are smugglers leaving and entering the ports every day with the goods that are now more expensive and get a better price. Sanctions do not work, they merely hurt the people of the country by crippling the economy and the government just pays the high price for the goods it needs.
The people get punished and leadership does not miss a beat. What are the differences between blockade and sanctions? Blockades, everything shuts down, there are no smugglers that live. It’s is not unlike a seige of a castle, the country cannot withstand no trade. They will begin to fall apart and surrender to your terms. The sanctions are a joke created by the UN, which remember are the screaming old ladies of the world.
One other thing that has me questioning is this, why are we meddling in others affairs? If we do meddle why do it half-assed? IF it is important to our country we should go 100% and solve the problem now and not slap wrists and pillow fight. I tend to believe that there are a lot of bad people in the world, but the country cannot just go around the world bitch slapping every bad leader because they do something stupid. We need to set an example here at home first, that we are free and running with the peoples rights in mind. If we are corrupt and we force our corruption on others then they all think we are idiots. We cannot even secure our border how in the hell are we going to secure Iraq, or Afgahnistan?
Well that is my rant on the jokes that are sanctions. We need to get back to standing for something, standing tall and strong, no waivering. Keep looking for freedom, one day we will see a glimps. See you Friday.