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Weak sanctions don’t put any pressure on Russia
Opinion: U.S., EU send a political message, not an economic one
March 17, 2014, 1:34 p.m. EDT
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The United States and the European Union did the bare minimum Monday by imposing economic sanctions on a small group of Russian and Ukrainian politicians. The sanctions sent a political message that the West is most seriously displeased with Russia’s aggression in Crimea, but the economic impact of the sanctions is barely discernible.
The sanctions amount to a slap on the wrist — and not a very hard slap, either. The West can seize assets owned by these people, and prevent Western banks from doing business with them. But the sanctions don’t touch the flow of trade and investment between Russia and the West.
Unlike past sanctions imposed against Iran, or Iraq, or South Africa, these sanctions aren’t designed to cripple the Russian economy in an effort to apply real pressure on Moscow to relent. Instead, they are designed to punish a few influential people personally, without much expectation that they will change Russia’s policies, which are formulated more on the basis of national pride and geopolitical security than on economic self-interest.
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