US sanctions more deadly than war.

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Unilateral and Illegal Sanctions – Mainly by the United States – Kill Half a Million Civilians Per Year: The Thirty-First Newsletter (2025)​

A study in The Lancet estimates that unilateral sanctions have caused as much death as wars, with an estimated half a million deaths per year.
31 July 2025

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US and EU sanctions have killed 38 million people since 1970​

Far from a peaceful tool, these measures weaponise hunger and deprivation to enforce Western dominance.

A man holds Iranian rials at a currency exchange shop, before the start of the US sanctions on Tehran, in Basra, Iraq November 3, 2018. [Essam al-Sudani/Reuters]

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The United States and Europe have long used unilateral sanctions as a tool of imperial power, to discipline and even destroy Global South governments that seek to shake off Western domination, chart an independent path, and establish any kind of meaningful sovereignty.

During the 1970s, there were, on average, about 15 countries under Western unilateral sanctions in any given year. In many cases, these sanctions sought to strangle access to finance and international trade, destabilise industries, and inflame crises to provoke state collapse.Live
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US and EU sanctions have killed 38 million people since 1970​

Far from a peaceful tool, these measures weaponise hunger and deprivation to enforce Western dominance.

A man holds Iranian rials at a currency exchange shop, before the start of the US sanctions on Tehran, in Basra, Iraq November 3, 2018. [Essam al-Sudani/Reuters]

By Jason Hickel, Dylan Sullivan and Omer Tayyab
Published On 3 Sep 20253 Sep 2025
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The United States and Europe have long used unilateral sanctions as a tool of imperial power, to discipline and even destroy Global South governments that seek to shake off Western domination, chart an independent path, and establish any kind of meaningful sovereignty.
During the 1970s, there were, on average, about 15 countries under Western unilateral sanctions in any given year. In many cases, these sanctions sought to strangle access to finance and international trade, destabilise industries, and inflame crises to provoke state collapse.

 

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Ah yes, the same Lancet which claimed that Covid shots were safe and effective.

If I remember correctly, at the start of the Covid scamdemic, The Lancet and Nature both led the way into gaslighting the world about the Wuhan seafood market or Tiongs eating bats which caused the Covid virus, and vehemently denied any links to the Wuhan bio lab.

Looks like even scientific journals are not spared from the CCP contamination.

P.S: China must be very nervous about Iran and Venezuela, two sources of oil turned off. Up next, Cuba... no oil but equally significant to the other two. You'll find out why.

 

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Ah yes, the same Lancet which claimed that Covid shots were safe and effective.

If I remember correctly, at the start of the Covid scamdemic, The Lancet and Nature both led the way into gaslighting the world about the Wuhan seafood market or Tiongs eating bats which caused the Covid virus, and vehemently denied any links to the Wuhan bio lab.

Looks like even scientific journals are not spared from the CCP contamination.

P.S: China must be very nervous about Iran and Venezuela, two sources of oil turned off. Up next, Cuba... no oil but equally significant to the other two. You'll find out why.