Joe Biden has imposed MORE sanctions on countries than any other president
www.thecanary.co
60% of low income countries are under US sanctions, and Joe Biden has imposed more than any other American president
  • towerful@programming.dev
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    4 months ago

    https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MASTER-Sanctions-chart-508-Updates-Aug-2023.pdf

    I presume state.gov is publishing official things.

    I counted 13 pages between 2017 and 2019, and only 10 pages between 2020 and 2024.

    I don’t get US term dates, so I figured giving the benefit of the doubt against the current president was a safe bet. Hence 2 years under trump and 4 years under biden.

    Not all pages have the same amount of sanction, ranging from 6 to 9. However quick checks show 2017 to 2019 having more 8 or 9 sanctions per page, with 2020 to 2024 having more 7 sanctions per page.

    The sensible thing would be to count them, but I CBA. 3 extra pages and potentially 2 less years makes it pretty clear cut to me. Not worth wasting more effort on this pish.

    Less sanctions under Biden than Trump.
    ^Willing to be corrected from an actual analysis/source. Especially if my napkin/skim maths from the source I gave is off^