Biden administration identifies 50 Russian elites as targets for global hunt to seize assets
Washington PostJUL 2022
While Western sanctions have been effective and should be lauded, they so far have been on capital goods that take longer to impact the Russian economy. Western allies need to ensure that they're all simultaneously imposing restrictions on narrowly defined, war-specific goods that will cripple Putin's war effort exponentially more.
It's hypocritical to impose sanctions on Russia for invading Ukraine but not on the US for invading Iraq for equally unjustified reasons or on Israel for invading and annexing Arab lands. The West needs to take a hard look at its double standards.