this is what sanctions do, it's what they're made to do.

This has been admitted by US government representatives: they are a tool to create suffering and misery among the general population, impoverish and kill them, with the hope that this population will misdirect its anger at its own government, which is not the cause of this suffering.

Also true in venezuela, as has been widely documented_ https://cepr.net/report/economic-sanctions-as-collective-punishment-the-case-of-venezuela/

Even amnesty international - which is a tool of neocolonial western imperialism, most of the time - has acknowledged this about Cuba: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/amr25/007/2009/en/