"The aim of a blockade – or sanctions, the legal term – is to strangle a country’s economy in order to change the behaviour of its government.
Trade restrictions are kept in place not by a besieging army, but by a vast bureaucratic regime that’s a less costly method of coercion than putting troops on the ground."
"The aim of a blockade – or sanctions, the legal term – is to strangle a country’s economy in order to change the behaviour of its government.
Trade restrictions are kept in place not by a besieging army, but by a vast bureaucratic regime that’s a less costly method of coercion than putting troops on the ground."
Thank you for this clarity.