How will that help?

And how long did it stay around even though there was a better option? And how much more penetration into everyday life does WhatsApp have today? Right.

There is no other version. An electron app is a browser app.

First of all, “causing excess death” is not “murder”, no matter how much you want to equate them.

But merely lamenting the consequences of sanctions is like lamenting how lives are ruined by imprisoning criminals with no attention given to what would likely happen if crime just went unpunished.

Sanctions are applied in response to something and have to be viewed through that lens. How many more deaths would result if repressive governments felt they had free rein to commit crimes against their own populations and those of their neighbours if they faced no repercussions for doing so?

This is why the article is written irresponsibly, and probably is a propaganda piece: it does not make any attempt to relate the outcome of sanctions to likely alternative situations in which sanctions were not applied. This way of examining sanctions (or anything) can perfectly well be used to criticise sanctions as causing suffering in excess of what they are supposed to be combating.

Pretty glaring omission of the sanctions on Russia in this blog-post universally condemning sanctions.

Looks like the People’s Dispatch is far-left biased, so probably tankies deliberately writing stuff that benefits Russia.

You don’t have to subscribe to political communities if you don’t want to see political discussion. But the dearth of genuine political discussion here is a problem for the people who do want it, that can’t be fixed by individual action.