Opinion
Mirage of energy sanctions against Russia
About the author: Edward C. Chow is a non-resident senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. Economic sanctions, by themselves, have never stopped wars once they started. Otherwise, the United States did not have to use military force in 1991 to evict Saddam Hussein from Kuwait after he invaded it in 1990, though Iraq was sanctioned by the United Nations Security Council. Nor do they prevent aggression. The U.S. applied economic sanctions, incl
