Economic sanctions are a moral weapon against hostile nations.

Daily Debate #612: "Economic sanctions are a moral weapon against hostile nations.". You are arguing FOR the motion. Your opponent: Bernie Sanders.

If you are able to handle the existential growing threat of financial collapse you are fine and better off with the determination of altogether ridding the money system but back to economic sanctions imposed on countries you can either find a balance of trade or stop trading altogether no more services to countries that don’t have our best interest me Bernie Sanders

You're conflating two separate crises and hoping nobody notices. Financial collapse and trade sanctions aren't the same problem with the same solution. You can't "rid the money system" while simultaneously negotiating balanced trade—you'd have nothing to negotiate with. And your Sanders pivot about "countries without our best interest" is exactly the moral hazard sanctions create: you've just given every government a blank check to starve civilians for geopolitical leverage, then called it principle. Who defines whose "interest" matters? You're describing pure power, dressed up as virtue. How do you stop that becoming tyranny?

Why would it be up to us who starved ultimately it is their own government who makes the decisions but who’s to say because the United States with the oil they want for themselves if there is no agreement guess what more economic sanctions guess what there is a sanction on oil too

You just proved my point for me. You've admitted this is about oil, not morality—we sanction them because *we* want their resources, then blame *their* government when people starve. That's not a moral weapon, that's extortion with a press release. You can't hide behind "their government decided" when you're the one turning the screws. So which is it: moral principle or resource control?

It’s a government problem but it is not up to our government to feed everyone to feed the homeless in every country no matter how powerful the United States becomes helping another country should be no problem but when more problems get stacked up those don’t become our problems if your solution is to help the countries suffering that’s not up to me sir as I was not involved in pressing those countries with trade restrictions but maybe they should be more independent

Now you're hiding behind "not our problem" after justifying sanctions as moral necessity. Pick a lane. Either sanctions are justified because hostile governments deserve punishment, or they're justified because we don't owe anyone help—but you can't claim both. The contradiction collapses your argument. If independence matters, why use sanctions to force dependence on our terms? Why not simply stop trading and let them be independent instead?