https://moscowmigrant.com/tags/oil/Recent content in Oil on MoscowMigrantHugoenFri, 29 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/what-sanctions-can-and-cannot-do/Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/what-sanctions-can-and-cannot-do/Sanctions are neither useless theatre nor a silver bullet that can topple a dictatorship or end a war by themselves. They cannot overthrow a regime, impose a total embargo, or dethrone the dollar by decree. But aimed precisely — at frozen reserves, the shadow fleet, the war economy itself — they are a slow tourniquet on the resource the war runs on. They win nothing alone; they work only alongside force.