Saagar Enjeti

revolutionary purposes.

And I think she said something along the lines of heightening the contradictions.

And he said, do you mean that in like a... She said, he might bring the revolution faster.

That was the quote.

He said, Chris Hayes goes, do you mean that in like a Leninist way?

And she was like, yeah.

They tried to cancel her.

You know, it's so interesting because I think of this in this almost like media historic framing where what Hasan Piker does is sit in front of a computer to the point where it would be impossible for him to lie or be inauthentic about what he's feeling because he has a camera on him like he's on Big Brother or the real world back in the day.

at all times.

And it's like this is the streaming economy.

And I'm just curious as a candidate, if you think that's kind of a lot of people see some of this and actually even Israel policy itself as kind of a proxy for whether you are being honest and like real, to paraphrase the real world tagline with voters, like there's just this expectation that you have to be more

Kind of like I hate the word authentic, but there is something to that, like raw almost.

Yeah, so the United States came into this century, the 21st century, with a really unique position of economic power, and it's been using that for years against many countries to impose economic and financial sanctions.

So Iran has been under sanctions since 2009.

They were briefly lifted, and then there was a nuclear deal, and then Trump got out of that nuclear deal in 2018 and reimposed maximum pressure sanctions.

But if you look at any number of other conflicts, the war in Ukraine, of course, there were big sanctions imposed against Russia.

export controls on ships going to China.

So it's been a big part of US-Chinese competition.

North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, all the conflicts I think that we are seeing at the moment really involve the use of sanctions.

And the United States has been using them a lot really because it gives an easy alternative to boots on the ground and to directing more