[newrotik]

What evidence do you have to support your claim? Many countries have been subjected to sanctions for years, yet their military power hasn't diminished significantly (NK, Iran, ...).

The misery of the poor and disenfranchised, which you dismiss as people not "having anything anyways", has however been much exacerbated.

[KptMarchewa]

You must be joking if you think both countries military power haven't been effectively diminished. Only thing NK has going for them are nukes.

Iran too - they've been focused on reverse engineering cold war tech, which they did with mixed results.

[deepsun]

It has diminished (or didn't grow) significantly. The only country I remember that still had really strong military after sanctions was Iraq.