For a trade embargo against a particular country to succeed, a high degree of both international accord and ability to prevent goods from entering or leaving that country must be sustained. A total blockade of Patria's ports is necessary to an embargo, but such an action would be likely to cause international discord over the embargo. The claims above, if true, most strongly support which of the following conclusions?
(A) The balance of opinion is likely to favor Patria in
the event of a blockade.
(B) As long as international opinion is unanimously
against Patria, a trade embargo is likely to
succeed.
(C) A naval blockade of Patria's ports would ensure
that no goods enter or leave Patria.
(D) Any trade embargo against Patria would be likely
to fail at some time.
(E) For a blockade of Patria's ports to be
successful, international opinion must be
unanimous.
Whats wrong with E ?
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My stake on Dbhumika.k.shah wrote:For a trade embargo against a particular country to succeed, a high degree of both international accord and ability to prevent goods from entering or leaving that country must be sustained. A total blockade of Patria's ports is necessary to an embargo, but such an action would be likely to cause international discord over the embargo. The claims above, if true, most strongly support which of the following conclusions?
(A) The balance of opinion is likely to favor Patria in
the event of a blockade.
(B) As long as international opinion is unanimously
against Patria, a trade embargo is likely to
succeed.
(C) A naval blockade of Patria's ports would ensure
that no goods enter or leave Patria.
(D) Any trade embargo against Patria would be likely
to fail at some time.
(E) For a blockade of Patria's ports to be
successful, international opinion must be
unanimous.
Whats wrong with E ?
The first line denotes the principle of "successful trade embargo" (this should be always considered true(Ahem!)
The claims suggest a problem that the blockade is necessary but there will be international dis-accord(questions asks to consider this as true)
Hence the only possibility is that the Patria port will not be successful against trade embargo.
Ans is D
E-- we cannot change the principle here and we have no right to do that(since its a principle)
For ex : Can we change Newton's laws? No . only Newton can change it.
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bhumika.k.shah wrote:For a trade embargo against a particular country to succeed, a high degree of both international accord and ability to prevent goods from entering or leaving that country must be sustained. A total blockade of Patria's ports is necessary to an embargo, but such an action would be likely to cause international discord over the embargo. The claims above, if true, most strongly support which of the following conclusions?
(A) The balance of opinion is likely to favor Patria in the event of a blockade.
we are not sure about this....there is intrnl disscord that is some favours and sme not .and rule is to have a blocade + intnl accord...nothing is mentioned about whether its 50-50 or more
eliminated(B) As long as international opinion is unanimously against Patria, a trade embargo is likely to succeed.
for a trade embargo we need bth hence eliminated
(C) A naval blockade of Patria's ports would ensure that no goods enter or leave Patria.
may be or may be not wat if goods are entering thru air cargo
(D) Any trade embargo against Patria would be likely to fail at some time.
true
(E) For a blockade of Patria's ports to be successful, international opinion must be unanimous.
pasage mentions abt for a trade embargo we need blocade+intnl accord ; nthng abt blocade is mentioned in passage
eliminated
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P1. successful trade embargo (sufficient) --> High degree of international accord + ability to prevent the flow of goods(necessary)
P2. Total blockade of port is necessary for an embargo. This adds to one more necessary condition to the premise 1.
P3. But blockade of ports causes international discord over the embargo (cause-effect scenario).
contra positive of P1,
No international accord or no ability to prevent the flow--> no successful trade embargo.
As for E, it was not mentioned in the stimulus whether the blockade of ports would be success or a failure depending up on the international accord. The blockade could well be successful even with out the accord. But what the successful blockade would cause has been mentioned in the premise 3.
And looking at this in a formulaic perspective, option E is trying to define a sufficient-necessary relation involving the blockade. This is not supported by the stimulus.
D rightly mentions the contra-positive of the P1+P2, because there is a dead lock over international accord and blockade of ports and because both are necessary for an embargo, the result(successful embargo) can never be achieved.
Hope this is understandable and does help...
P2. Total blockade of port is necessary for an embargo. This adds to one more necessary condition to the premise 1.
P3. But blockade of ports causes international discord over the embargo (cause-effect scenario).
contra positive of P1,
No international accord or no ability to prevent the flow--> no successful trade embargo.
As for E, it was not mentioned in the stimulus whether the blockade of ports would be success or a failure depending up on the international accord. The blockade could well be successful even with out the accord. But what the successful blockade would cause has been mentioned in the premise 3.
And looking at this in a formulaic perspective, option E is trying to define a sufficient-necessary relation involving the blockade. This is not supported by the stimulus.
D rightly mentions the contra-positive of the P1+P2, because there is a dead lock over international accord and blockade of ports and because both are necessary for an embargo, the result(successful embargo) can never be achieved.
Hope this is understandable and does help...
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