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*[https://washingtondc.jhu.edu/news/do-sanctions-actually-work-experts-evaluate-the-efficacy-of-this-widely-used-foreign-policy-tool/ DO SANCTIONS ACTUALLY WORK? EXPERTS EVALUATE THE EFFICACY OF THIS WIDELY USED FOREIGN POLICY TOOL] (“What we found is that it works in ways that we don’t want it to work. And it doesn’t work in the ways that we want it to work,” said Middle East expert Vali Nasr, one of the book’s authors.)

*[https://washingtondc.jhu.edu/news/do-sanctions-actually-work-experts-evaluate-the-efficacy-of-this-widely-used-foreign-policy-tool/ DO SANCTIONS ACTUALLY WORK? EXPERTS EVALUATE THE EFFICACY OF THIS WIDELY USED FOREIGN POLICY TOOL] (“What we found is that it works in ways that we don’t want it to work. And it doesn’t work in the ways that we want it to work,” said Middle East expert Vali Nasr, one of the book’s authors.)

== Ukraine and the West both acted badly in terms of Minsk agreements and other agreements ==

== Russia, West, Ukraine and the West all acting badly in terms of Minsk agreements, agreements and promises ==

=== Russia acting badly ===

=== Russia acting badly ===

TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 2016, U.S. Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations: "Russia has acted contrary to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the Open Skies Treaty, and the Incidents at Sea Agreement. Russia has altered the human rights landscape within its own country, decreasing democracy and begging questions about the future of governance, not just in Moscow, but across the Federation. Moreover, Russia has joined the civil war in Syria and begun militarizing the Arctic.", 2016 [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-114shrg28077/html/CHRG-114shrg28077.htm#:~:text=While%20Russia%20is%20currently%20in,between%20500%20and%205%2C500%20kilometers.]

TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 2016, U.S. Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations: "Russia has acted contrary to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the Open Skies Treaty, and the Incidents at Sea Agreement. Russia has altered the human rights landscape within its own country, decreasing democracy and begging questions about the future of governance, not just in Moscow, but across the Federation. Moreover, Russia has joined the civil war in Syria and begun militarizing the Arctic.", 2016 [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-114shrg28077/html/CHRG-114shrg28077.htm#:~:text=While%20Russia%20is%20currently%20in,between%20500%20and%205%2C500%20kilometers.]

=== Ukraine and West acting badly ===

=== West and Ukraine acting badly ===

*[https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-disappointed-merkels-words-minsk-140859136.html Merkel admits that West were not sincere about Minsk Agreements], Yahoo News, 2022

*[https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-disappointed-merkels-words-minsk-140859136.html Merkel admits that West were not sincere about Minsk Agreements], Yahoo News, 2022

== Notes ==

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