Khury Petersen-Smith questions the morality of sweeping economic sanctions and highlights it a much more devastating, rather than a targeted, weapon of war. His op-ed hints at the reality that Total War is not only here but is undergoing a massive retrofit to fit the 21st-century neo-Cold War scenario. Reports that Russian military actions are targetting civilians and hospitals would in this conceptualization approximate a 20th century Total War strategy. But the US & its European Allies have adopted the 21st-century version, Total War 0.2 . It targets ordinary Russians; their livelihood, their ability to buy and sell and import or export even necessities and penalizes any person in most parts of the world who dares to sell to or buy from the Russians or who in any way economically, culturally, or socially relate with ordinary Russians. It is war that will continue to wage itself even after direct military actions have stopped.
 | People line up to withdraw U.S. dollars at a Tinkoff ATM in a supermarket on Tverskaya street in Moscow, Russia, on March 3, 2022. The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian military has sent the Russian ruble plummeting, leading uneasy people to line up at banks and ATMs to withdraw U.S. dollars as ... truthout.org |
How does Russia react when these sanctions start to bite really hard and what happens if China flouts everyone of the sanctions? Let us hope that we are not witnessing the opening salvos of World War III
Femi J. Kolapo | Department of History | www.uoguelph.ca/history
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