“There are times when sanctions have made it worse. I mean, there are times .. leading up to World War II we cut off trade with Japan. That probably caused Japan to react angrily. We also had a blockade on Germany after World War I, which may have encouraged them … some of their anger.”
Can your really argue with the above statement? But of course there are no win situations where no matter what you do, the inevitable is going to happen.
So they got angry....Doesn’t mean it was wrong to do. I mean who cares if we got Hitler angry, the guy wanted a war, and he got it. Same with the Japs.