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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRemember, international sanctions ENDED the Cold War without a nuke being fired.
Just sayin..
Memo to other world leaders..
Follow President Joe Biden's lead and impose tough sanctions on Putin.
Join Joe. You'll save lives.
brooklynite
(94,302 posts)Are you under the assumption that anyone would be advocating military action (much less a "nuke being fired"?)
Imallin4Joe
(752 posts)Without a shot being fired.
A peacenik like me prefers negotiation over bloodshed, anyday.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,283 posts)There were some near-confrontations, in Berlin and Cuba.
Could I be mistaken?
Imallin4Joe
(752 posts)The Soviet Union crumbled due to international sanctions and trade boycotts, a costly arms race with the USA, and a costly war with Afghanistan.
JFK's spine ended the Cuba crisis.
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)Imallin4Joe
(752 posts)Vlad knows this. He doesn't have the hand that he is trying to show to the world.
Putin is bluffing.
KentuckyWoman
(6,679 posts)The sanctions were an important tool but it was also the environment in which they were used at the time. Remember the USSR was more or less bankrupted by Afghanistan War. The mismanagement within the USSR itself. They simply fell apart.
I have no idea if my understanding is correct. I only know what the newspapers and news magazines were reporting at the time.
Xolodno
(6,383 posts)Cuba and Iran continue to laugh. And Libya collapsed AFTER sanctions were lifted.
What killed the USSR was corruption, cost of maintaining the empire (why I don't believe the junk that Putin wants to re-create it, it helped cause the fall of the USSR and Tsar) and whole laundry list of factors. There was no silver bullet. And while the free world went through depressions, recessions, etc. The USSR was largely unfazed.
Ironically it was the USSR's move towards more free market reforms when it fell apart, first a coup by hardliners then a coup led by Yelstin.
PortTack
(32,691 posts)And you are right, sanctions do work. The Russian economy is still struggling from the 2014 sanctions.
The Cuba and Iran sanctions really dont compare. Not big trading countries or world powers