Rory Jones
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 22 Jul
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I'll be signing an executive order imposing hard-hitting sanctions on the supreme leader of Iran and the... I mean, very simply, sanctions are about economic warfare, it's economic statecraft, it's about using your economy and your weight financially to force someone else to do something.
Over the last 10 years, you've seen annual sanctions by the US increase from about 800 roughly in 2017 to like 3,000 in 2024.
But whether they're effective or not is very much still up for debate.
At the moment, what you aren't seeing is you aren't seeing a lot of the U.S.
enemies change their behavior.
The Iranian regime is still in place.
The North Korean regime is still in place.
Russia is still fighting a war against Ukraine.
If you talk to sanctions experts, what they're saying is that the way in which sanctions are imposed and the way in which sanctions are enforced just doesn't add up at the moment and isn't producing the results that Washington wants to see.
The apartheid regime in South Africa was under cultural sanctions.
It was under a boycott globally.
And the U.S.
also imposed sanctions in the 80s.
Everyone agrees that the economic sanctions, along with cultural boycotts and arms embargoes, all of that contributed to a change in government in South Africa and a change of behavior.
Why sanctions are often a first tool that Washington and other governments use is because they don't want to commit to a military operation or to even risk at times a military operation.
So economic warfare and sanctions are often viewed as a way to try to avoid conflict and try to push a particular country to change before you actually have to go to war.
There's also been sanctions on North Korea and that are aimed at trying to stop North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
Cuba has been under sanctions for decades and Venezuela also is under sanctions.
And so you have these examples of where, currently at least, where sanctions just haven't or don't appear to be effective.
Yeah, there's no doubt that sanctions have an impact on the ability of these countries to earn revenues and to move money around the world and to allow their economies to function.
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