That’s a very broad statement, almost automatically untrue. All countries, all situations, all financial sanctions?

It obviously isn't too broad, because instead of this comment you could have posted a single counterexample to disprove it.

The onus isn’t really on me, I’m not the one making blanket statements.

The idea is that "the many", the poor, will overthrown the elite.

Because they have limited access to the Internet? That’s just silly.

and many other things

Like, what things? I'm a citizen of a heavily sanctioned country, even though I haven't lived there for years. If anything, sanctions only affect people in such a way that they hate the countries that imposed the sanctions on their country, but not their own government. That's a very naive point of view.

Like we saw recentlly with Russia, the people were not upset when they invaded Ukraine. Then when McDonald's pulled out of Russia a fat guy chained itself to the doors. So internet, fast-food, clothes, cars, movies... water pumps... and so on.

> the people were not upset

False. There's a lot (the majority) of people from my close circle who were and are "upset", if I can put it this way. I don't have the statistics, but let's say that's 80/20 ratio (supporters/non-supporters), even though I personally believe it's closer to 50/50.

> fast-food, clothes

So you really think that limited access to the Internet and the fact that McDonalds is gone would force these 20% to get on the streets and fight against the heavily armed government forces AND the rest 80% of the country population? I mean, among the other reasons that come to mind, sanctions (movies, cars, clothes - what??) are somewhere at the very bottom of my list, if matter at all.

It's not what I think, is what actually happened: a russian guy protested ONLY for his lifestyle, a burger, not for his government killing other people.

Do you see the difference between "a guy" and 20% of the population?