From Mike Lofgren, American author and a former Republican U.S. Congressional aide, The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government (2016):
Both sanctions and bombing give the illusion of precision, calibration, and the capacity to ratchet up coercion in a gradual escalation. And both have the capacity to cause tremendous suffering among innocent third parties while having far less strategic effect than their advocates claim.
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