sanctions in general never work and disproportionately hurt ordinary people especially against authoritarian governments they are 100% useless. it's completely flawed logic to think that sanctions put pressure on authoritarian government by its people and therefore will effect change. you need serious country-wide revolutionary movement to do that, and in authoritarian governments like Russia, Iran, China, etc, it is incredibly difficult for movements like this to organise, because the entire system is against them, all media is controlled, there are limited civil rights, police and military have much more reign, etc.
but unfortunately the american dollar is at the centre of the world economy and americans love to sanction whoever they can, and if their "allies" don't agree, the businesses of allied countries become black listed by the americans from doing business with the rest of the world, because other allied countries if not wanting to be blacklisted cannot do business with the blacklisted ones either. american imperialism has the world at its balls for a long time, and many countries have had to take significant economic hits to uphold american sanctions, which is why european governments over the last 10 years have resisted more and more sanctions against russia because the dumb american governments don't understand that Russia for one is not a country that can simply be ignored and are economically and culturally part of our continent and we do business with them all the time, and the sanctions do not hurt the Kremlin at all,, just the people.
systems like INSTEX made by Europe to bypass american dollar/sanctions, which was made for Iran after Trump fucked the deal, will be the future. but unfortunately it's difficult to actually get info on how it's working and how well..
The sanctions wouldn't hurt as much if the EU weren't little chickenshits when it comes to the JCPOA and their end of the bargain. Even when it comes to Humanitarian aide which are supposedly exempt from sanctions, the EU banks and other entities refuse to deal in it out of fear of US sanctions.
So far the EU has offered no credible protection for EU banks and business to conduct operations with Iran from American sanctions and that INSTEX thing? No one is using it. Then they have the balls to condemn Iran for backpedalling on their Nuclear commitments? How about you fucking commit to your end of the deal when it comes to doing business in Iran before talking and acting like Trump's bitches?
Ayatollah Khamenei and the hardlines were opposed to the deal with Obama, but Rouhani and Zarif persisted and achieved a deal with the Americans most people thought was impossible. After this? I don't see any new deal coming in even if Bernie Sanders is elected, unless that deal becomes a binding treaty.
because there is no choice. america will blacklist you from international markets, so they only way to stand up to america is to be 100% united, and even though we are union this is difficult unless we are a federation. the legal system of the EU does not extend this far to force EU members to unify in regards to something like this. let's say 5 EU countries agree not to go with sanctions, well then america will blacklist their businesses from the international market, which means other EU countries and the rest of the world cannot do business with them unless they want to be blacklisted too.
so let's even say all of EU does not sanction. the U.S can blacklist the whole EU, which means Asia, Africa, South America are fucked with their trade to EU.
it's not so simple. this is way more complex issue, and america runs the world like a mafia.
the change must come from americans themselves, but vast, vast majority of americans don't give a fuck about foreign policy and in fact support most of their government's bullshit strategy for decades. there is a lot of pain and blood on americans hands way before even trump came into the picture. they support their country's position in this bullshit. you can see how often they talk about sanctions on this forum against russia for the last few years. they support the system/framework 100%
