Françoise Thom
Sanctions: Useless, Really?
Criticism mounts today in the West with the strong encouragement of Kremlin propaganda against the sanctions put in place following Russian aggression against Ukraine. These sanctions were adopted in order to “weaken the Kremlin’s ability to finance the war and to impose clear economic and political costs on the political elite of Russia responsible for the invasion”. Some pundits have lately insisted that sanctions are useless, that they have hurt Western economies more than the Russian economy. What is the truth?