Sanctions is the new black
We can be sure: one day not too far in the future, psychologists and psychiatrists will recognize a social pathology that has afflicted the governments of western countries in the period 2022 – year 20xx, a disease whose symptoms are madness, senseless actions, masochism and a euphoric exaltation of self-harm. This disease will be remembered as the ‘sanctions disease’, a fad that has normalized an unprecedentedly unhealthy lifestyle and policy.