David E. Sanger
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24 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 22 Aug
David E. Sanger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, Victor, good to be with you.
Um, a few things that I think are are moving here and you identified the most important one, which is China.
Uh Xi Jinping comes to Washington in just a month.
It's his first trip in more than a decade.
And the president wants this to be a very successful trip, building on his own trip in May to Beijing.
If that trip begins with secondary sanctions on the Chinese economy, because they are the single largest purchaser of Iranian oil, they're gonna have a problem.
And I think the first question is: can the president enforce these new sanctions, whatever they look like, uh in a way that does not undermine the most important relationship?
he's got with the world's between the world's largest and second largest economy.
I think the second problem he's got, and I think the Wall Street Journal editorial you that you quoted from there, Victor, gets at this, is that um the president now has turned economic sanction timing on its head.
Usually you start with diplomacy.
You ratchet up economic sanctions in order to reinforce that diplomacy, and you've got the ultimate threat that you might go to war if you felt that your interests were so required it.
He's now in the position where he's already gone to war.
It hasn't worked.
And so the Iranians have every reason to try to sort of drag this out through the midterms and make the pain as high as they can for the United States and for the President.
My friend Sam Faddis, what a great friend of the show, great friend of the network, also really, really smart guy.
Former CIA operative.
One has been, there's no problem here, right?
We're not being driven by this.
Second is, well, we wish we had some more of some kind, as you suggested.
So we do have a problem there.
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