[Udik]

> This is the equivalent of not playing with the kid who can't play fair or follow the rules.

More like the equivalent of the school bully threatening to beat up any kid who plays with the kid he doesn't like.

[seoaeu]

"Doesn't like" due to the real and lasting harm they've caused to the entire region

[Udik]

Says the country which organised a coup in Iran to install a dictator, financed another local dictator to attack it, then waged war twice against him leaving a country in ruins, supports and arms a religious absolute monarchy and its wars, supports an apartheid regime, paid jihadists in Syria to keep a civil war running...

[nradov]

Sanctions aren't violence, or even the threat of violence. They're an attempt to prevent violence.

[CryptoPunk]

Sanctions threaten violence against any one who does business with any one targeted by the sanctions.