{"id":15226,"date":"2022-04-13T11:08:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T10:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/?p=15226"},"modified":"2022-04-13T11:08:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T10:08:38","slug":"how-to-sanction-a-nuclear-foe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/how-to-sanction-a-nuclear-foe\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Sanction a Nuclear Foe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article__byline\"><time class=\"vl-divider\" datetime=\"2022-04-11T15:54Z\">Apr 11, 2022\u00a0 \u00a0<\/time><span class=\"byline\"><span class=\"listing__author author\">ANA PALACIO<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__abs u-mt-se\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Sanctions are an important and powerful weapon, and they are putting some pressure on the Kremlin. But unless the West employs them judiciously, Russian President Vladimir Putin, who appears to believe his paranoid propaganda and oversees the world\u2019s largest nuclear arsenal, may conclude that his regime has nothing to lose.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__body article__body--commentary paywall english\" dir=\"ltr\" data-page-area=\"article-body\">\n<p data-line-id=\"debe3f257bfe4169905b8abf2ac5d1d2\">MADRID \u2013 The gruesome scenes left behind after Russia\u2019s withdrawal from Bucha, where Ukraine accuses Russian troops of torturing and slaughtering civilians, have intensified pressure on the West to provide more offensive weapons to Ukraine and for Europe to ban Russian energy imports. But beyond the legitimate question of Europe\u2019s willingness to pay such a high price on Ukraine\u2019s behalf lies the stark reality that sanctions are hardly a silver bullet.<\/p>\n<p data-line-id=\"debe3f257bfe4169905b8abf2ac5d1d2\">Calls for sanctions began well before the invasion. When Russia was massing troops near Ukraine\u2019s border, the Ukrainian government \u2013 and some American lawmakers \u2013\u00a0urged\u00a0the United States and Europe to impose preemptive sanctions and offer Ukraine stronger security guarantees. But Western leaders\u00a0demurred, arguing that sanctions would impede their ability to reach a diplomatic solution.<\/p>\n<p data-line-id=\"debe3f257bfe4169905b8abf2ac5d1d2\">Read the entire article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/eu-ban-on-russian-energy-highlights-sanctions-limits-by-ana-palacio-2022-04?barrier=accesspay\">Project Syndicate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 11, 2022\u00a0 \u00a0ANA PALACIO Sanctions are an important and powerful weapon, and they are putting some pressure on the Kremlin. But unless the West employs them judiciously, Russian President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[153],"class_list":["post-15226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-room","tag-153"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}