[lovich]

If economic sanctions aren’t weapons, then why do sovereign nations deploy them against other sovereign nations to achieve their will?

[mlrtime]

Because actual weapons are much worse, don't you try to exhaust all options until you stop dropping bombs on people?

[lovich]

I replied to a comment mentioning deaths from sanctions.

Other than our monkey brains prioritizing physical violence as worse, I don’t see a functional different between deaths from sanctions and deaths from bombs.