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I used to have several acquintances that I did business with in Venezuela. One was a medical doctor who with his father in law bought and sold heavy machinery. His sister had a resort off the coast. And several were farmers and one of the farmers raised chickens. They were good people. The people were upper class for that country. Inspite of some mismanagement, socailization of some means of production and spending more on social programs , the big killer of the economy was the international application of sanctions led by the US. I have not heard from the Venezuelans for many years,
In fact the British medical journal, The Lancet published a study (Lancet Global Health) of the mortality rates of age specific humans due to sanctions. I believe that study shows that sanctions cause high death rates in the young and the elderly as one would expect. The study was for a 50 year period (1971-2021) and the US has always been the major unilateral country that has imposed sanctions for those 50 years. The report concludes that about 560,000 deaths have incurred annully from sanctions. The US had heavy sanctions on Iraq before GW Bush ( a war criminal in my opinion) invaded Iraq. I have seen reports that upwards of 1,000,000 died from sanctions. On the lower side the number is 150,000. UNICEF says 500,000. The Lancet study is a formal scientific study and one can debate the study if they have enough knowledge and intellect. The study only includes sanctions not battle deaths.
But the Lancet study shows the US in a very dim light. The study has been entered into the US congressional records. US hegemony has been nasty for a lot of innocent people. Britain was just as bad before WW2. And still today the US has sanctions on many countries at least 30. China and Russia have never sanctioned complete countries as they tend to sanction individuals or corporations.
If the US would ban neo cons all of the world would better off. The problem has been that there has never been any difference between the Dems or Repub foreigh policy since Eisenhower/Kennedy. It has always been a neo con foreign policy. ihave written my representative for 25 years that the CIA should be eleiminated since that agency is unaccountable. No answer. Both parties are corrupt (big money)as evidenced by most of the elected politicians behavior. | |
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