NEW: America’s sanctions policies are long overdue for a reevaluation. But while some elements should be scrapped, programs targeting kleptocrats and their networks should remain—and be strengthened across the board.
Alongside @apmassaro3: foreignpolicy.com/2021/08/24/bid…
Alongside @apmassaro3: foreignpolicy.com/2021/08/24/bid…
(One fantastic place for the US and allies to start expanding targeted sanctions against specific kleptocrats? Central Asia—including a certain former dictator of Kazakhstan.)
foreignpolicy.com/2021/08/24/bid…
foreignpolicy.com/2021/08/24/bid…
One lesson from the War on Terror that’s been overlooked (or forgotten) is just how effective financial measures were at disabling terror networks—and how those (unsurprisingly) follow similar pathways to the kleptocratic networks now operating.
foreignpolicy.com/2021/08/24/bid…
foreignpolicy.com/2021/08/24/bid…
Nor do you need to stop these sanctions programs only at kleptocrats.
Past time to consider launching similar programs at Western figures enabling these networks—and even at those responsible for climate destruction (so-called “green sanctions”).
Past time to consider launching similar programs at Western figures enabling these networks—and even at those responsible for climate destruction (so-called “green sanctions”).
'Navalny wants the West to sanction “Putin’s oligarchs, those heading ‘state-owned’ companies and companies that are formally private but whose prosperity is linked to Putin’s group, are not businessmen but leaders of organized crime groups.”' justsecurity.org/77952/anti-cor…
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