Funny, sanctions have successfully applied to countries such as Russia, Iran, etc for decades...

They do try workarounds, and when those are caught there are consequences

You can sit back down now.

Edit: Is there going to be more "laws can be broken so let's not bother" arguments, because that's lame and boring

> sanctions have successfully applied to countries such as Russia, Iran, etc for decades.

Largely because other countries are willing to go along with it, and to the extent they are willing to do so.

Even NATO countries import Russian gas. The UK rolled back sanctions on Russia to import diesel earlier this year. Most of the rest of the world did not impose effective sanctions and lots of people trade with them (including huge economies like China).

The rest of the world is to dependent on China to want to get involved. The US might succeed in the current administrations attempt to split the world into new cold war spheres of influence (because people are scared of China too) but its not going to be easy, it will be painful, and its not going to get many countries to completely agree to what the US wants.

> They do try workarounds, and when those are caught there are consequences

Lol. Yeh we can all see how well the sanctions worked on Russia and Iran. Thanks for proving my point!