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Sanctions Are Part of America’s ‘Forever Wars’ End Them Now, Demands Indian-American Academic
May 8, 2021 (EIRNS) Krishen Mehta, a Senior Global Justice Fellow at Yale University, issued a powerful call May 4 for ending U.S. sanctions against developing nations, especially those in Southwest Asia as well as Russia and China and nations of Ibero-America. Sanctions are acts of war, Mehta warned they’re a “way to have ‘foreign policy on the cheap’ without domestic consequence,” replacing diplomacy. In his article, “Sanctions and Forever Wars,” published on the website of the American Committee for U.S.-Russia Accord, Mehta argues that In some ways, sanctions are “WORSE than war, because at least in war there are certain protocols or conventions on harming civilian populations” (emphasis in the original). Under the current sanctions regime, “civilian populations are harmed constantly and many measures are in fact directly t