How does sanctioning work?
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Imagine there is a store (Russia) in your neighborhood. Who relies on shoppers from your neighborhood (the world)
You don’t like the owner of that store, but you cant stop that store from selling it’s products (gold, oil, etc))
You do however, control your household (USA) and have tremendous influence over most of your neighborhood (rest of the world).
So you tell your family not to shop at the store, and you warn the rest of your neighborhood to not shop at the store either, and almost all of them listen (sanctioning), because they don’t to make you mad.
You didn’t stop the store (Russia) from selling it’s products, but you stopped most of your neighborhood from shopping there. Which essentially is the same thing.
Sanctioning, if aggressive enough, is basically “cancelling” another country
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