In order to make the threat credible, you must threaten this sort of behavior that wouldn't really think of as preserving peace at all. That would be, in a sense, going to war, a waging total war on civilians. It was hoped that, in order to make it credible, you had to make a total and interestingly, there were also feminists, for example, who wrote to the league of nations and said things like, women and children, they don't support war. They're not the ones who are pushing governments to go to war, but they are now being targeted. But then the sanctionists, the people who designed the sanction said, sorry, but actually, they too