Bureaucrats dealing with sanctions are utterly incompetent in their  enforcement - Nassim Taleb

ArmInfo.  Russia has historically become accustomed to the hostile attitude of the West, and this circumstance  affects the level of effectiveness of the sanctions imposed against it. This was stated at a press conference in Yerevan by American essayist, economist, futurologist and risk manager, Ph.D. Nassim Taleb, known for his philosophical and economic bestsellers" "Black Swan" and "Antifragility".

From the point of view of his "antifragility theory," Mr. Taleb  believes that sanctions against Russia, Iran, and Syria can increase  the degree of antifragility of these countries. At the beginning of  the Russian- Ukrainian conflict, The West imposed mild sanctions  against Russia, which even allowed the country to take compensatory  measures and "start producing its own mozzarella."

According to Nassim Taleb, in all of the above-mentioned countries,  sanctions pressure is organized in such a way that it is not the  country's leaders who make certain decisions who suffer from them,  but the ordinary population. In fact, they are punishing the  population, which, due to the policies of their leadership, begins to  bear responsibility.

"I don't believe in the idea of using such sanctions, if only because  they do not meet the basic principles of democracy. Moreover,  bureaucrats dealing with sanctions are completely incompetent in  matters of theirenforcement. "I do not recognize such sanctions and  bureaucrats in Washington," the philosopher- economist said.