The Economic Weapon, the Rise of Sanctions Is a Tool of War

Sanctions, while often thought of as a way to forestall actual armed conflict, they can sometimes accelerate armed conflict. The sanctions imposed on Germany forced them to do rapid industrial development and then thrust ahead with war before they felt that the economic news would be tightened even further. So this is just one sort of lesson from European history that should give us a little bit of caution about this kind of attempts to cut off other nations from technological development.