Walter Russell Mead
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 22 Jun
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And we do it over and over.
There are a lot of reasons why we get so habituated to it.
One of them is that when you don't really want to do anything serious about something, but you don't want to look like you're not doing something serious, economic sanctions.
Ha!
You know, that shows I really care.
Sanctions, sanctions, sanctions.
We do that a lot.
It's also something that Congress can do.
And so congressmen, you know, there are very few things in foreign affairs that Congress can actually do.
Sanctions is one of them.
So we have a huge national predilection for sanction.
We also, I think we may overestimate the degree to which other countries are actually responsive to economic stimuli of any kind.
I mean, the classic example of this is during the pandemic, North Korea cut off all technology
contact with the outside world, its own border with China.
And actually, there was a lot of misery in North Korea as a result.
This was a far greater economic impact on North Korea than all the economic sanctions anybody else could ever impose would achieve.
And it was basically a way of North Korea demonstrating to the world, we simply do not care about your stupid UN Security Council sanctions.
They will not change.
And yes, you've been telling us we're not a nuclear power for 30 years.
We've been one.
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