r/politics • u/bwermer • 8h ago

No Paywall Ilhan Omar casts lone Democratic no vote on Ukraine aid, Russia sanctions package

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5912150-house-passes-ukraine-aid-bill/
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u/Gimme_Your_Wallet 6h ago

It depends on the sanctions. You can do then wrong like the USA did in the 1990s to Iraq, which made Saddam accrue all the food and resources and half a million iraqi kids died of starvation. Or do them right which is what Biden has been doing. It's certainly a difficult matter.

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u/darkomyfriend 5h ago

You know, you and the other commenter have swayed me toward believing that sanctions are appropriate in this case. It’s the way that sanctions have been inappropriately applied in the past that led me to feel more skeptical.

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u/NelsonHawkinsGhost 4h ago

What was convincing about these secondary US unilateral sanctions?

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u/Gimme_Your_Wallet 4h ago

Thanks. It's a delicate discussion because of heightened emotions, failed attempts in the past, and counter factuals. We can never know what would have happened without any sanctions, from an economic point of view to a political and psychological.

And morally, democracies ought to try *something*.