Sanctions Don’t Weaken US Adversaries — But They Do Enrich Oligarchs

In a rare moment of candor, former Trump administration officials are now admitting that economic sanctions — one of their most aggressive foreign policy tools — don’t actually work. This admission, coming from the architects of the U.S. “maximum pressure” campaigns, is telling. It confirms what many in sanctioned countries, and those who study them, have known for years: sanctions fail at their…

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