OPINION

Europe's Russia sanctions are a shot in the foot

News, Brahma Chellaney, Published on 19/12/2022

» It seems obvious that sanctions -- an increasingly important tool of Western foreign policy -- should inflict significant pain on the target without exacting unsustainably high costs from the country imposing them. But the European Union's sanctions on Russia -- intended to punish the country for its brutal war of aggression against Ukraine -- do not meet this condition.