[djrogers]

Sanctions only work that way in a world that doesn't exist - one with 100% agreement and compliance with sanctions at a nation-state level. The reason monetary controls are so critical to sanctions is that they make it more difficult for the countries that don't want to abide by the sanctions to do bypass them. Not impossible, but more difficult.

[woah]

I think India's massive trade volume with Russia contradicts you

[ethbr0]

The US specifically doesn't choose to enforce some of the harsher sanction penalties on India for geopolitical reasons.