I have not looked into their methodology, and the 40,000 number may be wildly inflated. However, that its even plausible that U.S. sanctions could cause 40,000 deaths in Venezuela over the course of one year speaks to the disastrous humanitarian consequences American sanctions can have.
No, hang on. You can’t do that. That’s a classic backtrack to a dangling justification: “I don’t know whether it’s true, but doesn’t the part where I thought it seemed like it might be mean something kind of similar?” No, not really.
There’s a lot of other hyperbolic description here too that seems to be poorly justified and leans heavily on the “you are probably not being serious if you don’t think this already” tone. Doesn’t mean it’s false necessarily either, but this is sketchy.
No, hang on. You can’t do that. That’s a classic backtrack to a dangling justification: “I don’t know whether it’s true, but doesn’t the part where I thought it seemed like it might be mean something kind of similar?” No, not really.
There’s a lot of other hyperbolic description here too that seems to be poorly justified and leans heavily on the “you are probably not being serious if you don’t think this already” tone. Doesn’t mean it’s false necessarily either, but this is sketchy.