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I get the impression that you are trolling, but... I don't think the Iranian government is "blameless" in general. (If countries were individual people, all of

I get the impression that you are trolling, but... I don't think the Iranian government is "blameless" in general. (If countries were individual people, all of them would be in jail, with most of them about to hang for war crimes.) But in the very specific context of embargoing software devs (versus weapons), I do think all of the blame for that is on countries on the imposing end of embargo. Big difference between "systemWMD" and actual WMDs. ;) The horribly broken crypto we all had to deal with in the 2000s was partially due to US trying to treat it like a "munition" and thus weakening everyone - even themselves - by the mere existence of the hobbled "export-grade" ciphers.

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mcguire 5y ago
Do you feel the same way about the economic sanctions against South Africa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Anti-Apartheid_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Anti-Apartheid_A...)?
- CrazyPyroLinux 5y ago
  I do. And Cuba, and North Korea, and wherever else. "If soldiers are not to cross international boundaries on missions of war, goods must cross them on missions of peace." - Mallery, Economic Union and Durable Peace Thus, embargoes are acts of war. Also, as evidenced by this very article, they don't tend to have the desired effect on their targets anyway, instead largely affecting innocent people and especially those of lesser means.