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Between 2010 and 2021, unilateral sanctions caused over 500,000 deaths annually, surpassing yearly global deaths from armed conflict.
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/02/every-year-sanctions-kill-more-people-than-wars/
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Sanctions, embargos, tomato, potato.
It’s a serious issue, and if the USA can lift them on Syria under their
terrorist puppetpreferred president because they acknowledge the cruelty of them, they can surely lift them everywhere else and choose diplomacy, rather than war, starvation, and other collective punishments.