The World’s Most-Sanctioned Countries: Before and After Russia’s Full Scale Invasion of Ukraine

by IWasWearingEyeliner

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  1. [Source](https://www.statista.com/chart/27015/number-of-currently-active-sanctions-by-target-country/):

    *In the wake of its invasion of Ukraine, Russia is now the most-sanctioned country in the world, with 14,081 sanctions on Russian individuals and entities currently in place, five times the amount compared to before it recognized the Luhansk and Donetsk regions as independent states on February 22, 2022. As our chart based on data aggregated by Castellum.AI shows, the invasion has pushed Russia past one of the United States’ biggest nemeses in Western Asia.*

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  2. Russia finally has a first place at something besides the highest suicide rate lol

  3. What the Russians did is wrong and Ukraine deserves all the support but I would say- All these sanctions and yet Russia stands. If it was any other country it would’ve collapsed.
    I guess India and China buying it way above the so called price cap prevents the collapse of the Russian state plus Europeans still buying Russian oil and gas from India while pretending they are not , not to mention Russia sales of other materials to US which was not sanctioned. They simply moved on to Asia instead of Europe. Their economic resilience is impressive. These sanctions has already made India and China move away from the West , atleast in India it started a massive push to get rid of anything critical to the country that comes from the west and make it at home. The coming years gonna be interesting as more of the world moves on from West.

  4. Not as scary, as it looks tho. God bless VPN’s and crypto!

    It really sucks without SWIFT.

  7. Number of individual sanctions vs impact of sanctions overall is different

  14. This is a measure of individual sanction rules.

    Over time, the trend has been towards more targeted sanctions. So 30 years ago there might have been a rule “no trading with country X” but now it’s more common to have a list of hundreds of individuals and organisations in country X that you’re not allowed to trade with.

    So if you’re listing countries by the total number of sanctions, the top of the list isn’t just “Which country angered everyone else”, it’s “which country angered everyone else *recently*”.

  15. I doubt that companies would stop selling their products to 100m people they will find a bug in the system to exploit so they can get paid

  16. I saw someone complaining about a video game’s release price adjustment in RU on Steam, and they claimed it was surprising due to the recent sanctions on literally everything. Wouldn’t that be expected?!

  17. Sanctioning effectively in the globalized economy is next to impossible. You can sanction a country with all sort of things but if it borders even one country that is either neutral or ally, they will import whatever they want and no-one can monitor the border of two sovereign countries but themselves.

    Russia shares borders with many countries that would be glad to act as brokers and take in a small cut from deals happening when goods are transitioned through them. Sanctions on small, isolated countries work, sanction on large superpowers do not nearly as well.

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