Creation of Economic Dependence

Aggressors may deliberately destroy or isolate the self-sufficient sectors of the colonized society's economy, replacing them with subsidies or critical supplies from the metropole. Artificially turning the region into a subsidized periphery critically dependent on the colonizer's external financing, energy resources, or export markets deprives the local population of the material base for political independence and makes organized protest economically impossible.

ID: T0046
Sub-techniques:  No sub-techniques
Tactic: Persistence
Peoples: Nokhchi (Chechens), Ukrainians
Version: 1.0
Created: 21 April 2026
Last Modified: 21 April 2026

Procedure Examples

ID Name Description
C0099 Derailing the Association with the EU (2013–2014)

Use of economic blackmail and promises of a 15 billion dollar loan, coupled with a gas discount, to coerce V. Yanukovych into derailing the signing of the Association Agreement with the EU[1].

S0009 Diplomacy

Use of economic blackmail and promises of a 15 billion dollar loan, coupled with a gas discount, to coerce V. Yanukovych into derailing the signing of the Association Agreement with the EU[1].

C1115 Economic Exploitation and Creation of Dependency of the Nokhchi (1617–1622)

The metropole's administration did not pay for forced labor and withheld food provisions for five years: a memorandum from the Posolsky Prikaz (Ambassadorial Office) to the Prikaz of the Kazan Palace records a complaint that the subordinate Okochans of Tersky Town «were not given the sovereign's grain allowance for the past years — for the 125th, and the 126th, and the 127th, and the 128th, and the 129th year»[2].

S0008 Government

Economic strangulation and squeezing out of landless Ukrainian peasants, which forced them to resettle to the outskirts of the empire[3].

S0012 Occupation and Controlled Administrations

The metropole's administration did not pay for forced labor and withheld food provisions for five years: a memorandum from the Posolsky Prikaz (Ambassadorial Office) to the Prikaz of the Kazan Palace records a complaint that the subordinate Okochans of Tersky Town «were not given the sovereign's grain allowance for the past years — for the 125th, and the 126th, and the 127th, and the 128th, and the 129th year»[2].

G0009 Russian Empire

Economic strangulation and squeezing out of landless Ukrainian peasants, which forced them to resettle to the outskirts of the empire[3].

G0011 Russian Federation

Use of economic blackmail and promises of a 15 billion dollar loan, coupled with a gas discount, to coerce V. Yanukovych into derailing the signing of the Association Agreement with the EU[1].

C0069 Stolypin Repressions and Mass Displacement (1906–1914)

Economic strangulation and squeezing out of landless Ukrainian peasants, which forced them to resettle to the outskirts of the empire[3].

G0008 Tsardom of Muscovy

The metropole's administration did not pay for forced labor and withheld food provisions for five years: a memorandum from the Posolsky Prikaz (Ambassadorial Office) to the Prikaz of the Kazan Palace records a complaint that the subordinate Okochans of Tersky Town «were not given the sovereign's grain allowance for the past years — for the 125th, and the 126th, and the 127th, and the 128th, and the 129th year»[2].

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