Did you guys see this investigative piece in the Washington Post from Jeff Stein about the rise of sanctions, like the rise of US using sanctions.

I saw you posted it.

Yeah, something about economic warfare, like a third of the countries of the world are

under sanctions by the United States.

Something like that, right?

Yeah.

One third of all nations on Earth now face some form of U.S. sanctions.

So, hold up, when you say one third, so there's almost 200 countries right or

I guess recognized countries right in the world so I know the big ones right

like you know Cuba and I'm sure there are some Latin American countries and

probably Russia but like is

Micronesia somehow on that list like a small island nation you know and like

Oceania or some shit like are they just six countries are under sanctions

that's like Mali, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Somalia, the DRC, China, Burma, Sudan, Belarus, I mean... I wonder what are all these countries most of these countries seem to have in common

you know what I mean is it their population is it the fact that most of these people are black or brown? Who knows?

They have a history of electing democracy.

Yeah, who can say, you know?

It's kind of fascinating, as they point this is spawned a multi-billion dollar lobbying and influence industry

in DC because it creates all this like paperwork and like intermediary third parties that can

basically like give the government advice on who to sanction and I think in some cases it's even being used against like competitors

corporate competitors to like US businesses so like you can say you want to

operate here you have to pay a bribe basically pretty much yeah like you can sanction individual

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