#sanctions
2 posts tagged sanctions.
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Iran's hungry war, and the cost of blockade economics
American naval pressure has produced food inflation that will outlast the war. The strategic question is whether the regime is broken by it or stabilised by the rally-round-the-flag effect.
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Cuba's lights go out, and Washington presses the switch
The collapse of Cuba's power grid and the CIA's visit to Havana reveal a coercive strategy that may achieve regime change — or produce a humanitarian catastrophe that outlasts whatever government follows.