How does sanctioning work?
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There’s a lot of different sanctions so there’s no single answer to this question.
Sanctions can be economic, political, military and more.
Economic sanctions often boil down to not trading with that country.
Usually sanctions focus on specific sectors. Usually starting with weapons.
So basically, you dont sell weapons to the country you’re angry at. Makes sense right?
You also ask your allies not to sell them weapons.
And if you’re powerful enough, you can ask (most of) the world to not sell that country weapons.
You can freeze assets of known power-players
If you know they have 200 million in the bank in YOUR country, you can simply “freeze” that money and they cant withdraw or transfer it. That’s a great way to target the elite of a country who often have their money stored outside of their own country.
You can also choose to not buy stuf from that country.
Like if they produce a lot of oil, you can simply not buy it.
It’s important to keep in mind that this also means that you’re then not getting that oil anymore. So you’re also hurting yourself with the sanctions.
Military sanctions can again be all sorts of things.
You can put some warships in the area and tell them “nobody is coming through”
Diplomatic sanctions are also quite popular.
Basically you kick out some diplomats to show you’re really angry
This is popular because it sounds cool but it’s also real easy to reverse by simply letting the diplomats back in.
So yeah, plenty of options
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