A Brief Apology and a Discussion of Sanctions

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3 • 882 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Once upon a time, an enemy would pull up to your gates with his army and surround your city so that nothing could get in or out. In a short time, you’d be eating the horses, maybe the rats and, if things got bad enough and you weren’t entirely suicidal, you’d open the gates. Sometimes that would work out OK. Sometimes not.

Nowadays, countries wanting something from each other seem to have more options, but one that’s still around is the siege. We just call the sanctions.

To discuss sanctions, their effectiveness and where they are currently applied by the United States, we are joined by Ambassador Daniel Fried. Fried spent a lifetime working at the state department, is an expert on sanctions, and is now at the Atlantic Council, a prominent Washington think tank. He’s got a new paper coming out on Nov. 17 with recommendations for the incoming administration.

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0:12.0	Hello angry-plane and listeners, it's Matthew.
0:15.0	We don't have new episodes this week for you much to our chagrin.
0:21.0	We are going to place something here it's an
0:23.0	unlocked episode from twenty twenty about the use of sanctions as war
0:26.5	uh... but let me explain
0:28.2	uh... what happened this week uh... you know if you haven't been following the news Russia invaded Ukraine on Thursday
0:34.8	we had episodes one in the tank and one planned to release the first one
0:41.1	after the invasion occurred the guest and I had a heart to heart.
0:48.8	It was not his urging but kind of more of it mine that we decided that perhaps the subject matter of the episode was inappropriate
0:56.5	given the current circumstances and so we decided to shelve it. The second episode we had planned,
1:07.0	the guest was unavailable because of the instance this week. Jason and I both have been run pretty ragged in our day jobs.
1:12.0	As you know, I'm a staff writer at Vice Motherboard and I'm kind of one of the guys that knows conflict pretty well and so I've kind of gotten rolled up into more of like the Vice News team proper and have been hitting
1:26.3	a lot of the news stories as they've been coming out and kind of doing the breaking news
1:29.7	beat which can be pretty exhausting.
1:36.0	You know, I have friends and colleagues in Ukraine, and I've been watching all this very closely
1:38.0	and being very, stay tuned into the news.
1:41.0	Jason literally just started a new job as deputy editor at the week.
1:46.6	Kind of a hell of a first week, you know, for something like this to happen.
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