{"id":17313,"date":"2025-04-13T20:02:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T20:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17313"},"modified":"2025-04-13T20:02:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T20:02:02","slug":"how-america-wasted-its-most-powerful-economic-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17313","title":{"rendered":"How America Wasted Its Most Powerful Economic Weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;the sanctions failed in one crucial way. The fact that Moscow was blindsided by them suggests it grossly underestimated the severity of the penalties it would face. Although the U.S. and its allies had developed an extensive menu of possible sanctions before the invasion, they never reached consensus on how far they were willing to go. They left Putin to divine the meaning of \u201cthe most severe sanctions that have ever been imposed,\u201d and Putin\u2014as he so often did\u2014read Western ambiguity as weakness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Biden and other world leaders had committed ahead of time to the actions they would eventually take, they might have had a much better chance of staving off Putin\u2019s invasion. Deterrence can\u2019t work if your adversary underestimates your ability or willingness to act. Putin never saw the sanctions coming\u2014and that was precisely the problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/sanctions-antibiotics-160000035.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/sanctions-antibiotics-160000035.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;the sanctions failed in one crucial way. The fact that Moscow was blindsided by them suggests it grossly underestimated the severity of the penalties it would face. Although the U.S. and its allies had developed an extensive menu of possible sanctions before the invasion, they never reached consensus on how far they were willing to go. They left Putin to divine the meaning of \u201cthe most severe sanctions that have ever been imposed,\u201d and Putin\u2014as he so often did\u2014read Western ambiguity as weakness.<\/p>\n<p>If Biden and other world leaders had committed ahead of time to the actions they would eventually take, they might have had a much better chance of staving off Putin\u2019s invasion. Deterrence can\u2019t work if your adversary underestimates your ability or willingness to act. Putin never saw the sanctions coming\u2014and that was precisely the problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/sanctions-antibiotics-160000035.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[217,165,272,355,314,1001],"class_list":["post-17313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-sanctions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17314,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17313\/revisions\/17314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}