You can't be pro-free market and pro-sancrions at the same time. Sanctions do not make authoritarian governments less authoritarian. They just hurt the poor people who are already opressed by those authoritarian governments. And those poor people will turn more against the countries imposing sanctions than they will against the government. If something doesn't work and makes things worse, maybe stop doing it?

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