American sanctions policy is a tool to undermine countries' progress

Oct 25, 2024 - 16:26
American sanctions policy is a tool to undermine countries' progress

The sanctions applied by the USA against a number of countries under different pretexts have made the unilateral policy pursued by that country clearer for everyone.

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has announced that next week Washington will impose "new and tough sanctions" against third countries it claims are helping to strengthen the Russian military and its actions in Ukraine.  
The US sanctions policy against Russia comes as Washington has supported Israel's crimes in Gaza and Lebanon and, along with Britain, has only announced sanctions against extremist ministers in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet a few times over the past year. However, the sanctions have not yet been applied.
At the same time, repeating the anti-Iranian statements, the US blacklisted six Chinese companies under the pretext of supporting the development of Iran's weapons, as well as the modernization of the Chinese army.
The US Department of Commerce announced that the above-mentioned companies are acting against the national security of that country by supporting Tehran's weapons program and the Chinese army.
The ministry also blacklisted nine Pakistani entities for allegedly violating export control laws and developing weapons and drone programs.
Last month, in response to these sanctions, Pakistan announced that they were imposed for political reasons.
As the United States and Western nations continue to provide military support to Ukraine in a bid to hit back at Russia, Washington has added three Emirati and one Egyptian company to its blacklist for violating sanctions related to the Ukraine war.
However, US sanctions do not include only the military sphere. Due to the sanctions imposed on Cuba, the residents of that country faced the problem of power outages in recent days.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez wrote in his X account that the cause of the island's energy crisis is the USA.
"The damage caused by US sanctions in just 18 days is equivalent to the annual cost of maintaining national electricity," he wrote.
According to Rodríguez, if Washington's sanctions against Havana were not there, the power outages that affected Cuba would not have happened.