If you don't mind, I kind of want to just read the number of countries that we have important sanctions on.

We currently have major sanctions on Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Syria, Cuba, Yemen, Afghanistan, Russia, China, Myanmar,

Libya, Sudan, Belarus, Lebanon Mali, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Nicaragua, Somalia, the Democratic

Republic of Congo, and that is a partial list.

And it's better than going to war.

That's the case for sanctions.

The problem is people pay attention to wars.

They don't really pay attention to sanctions.

The United States is currently engaged in a massive economic

war across dozens of countries that we are unaware of, the collateral damage of which is

far greater than most people, even in the US government, are aware of.

In a few months, a Harris or a Trump administration will have the chance to reverse a mountain of American sanctions.

And coming up on today explained,

we're going to have an argument that whoever is elected

maybe should.

Elon Musk's social media network X has been officially banned in Brazil.

So what happens now?

I think you are going to see a serious drop in, you know, how the internet looks and feels, especially on X. I think

Twitter needs the Brazilian users more than Brazil needs Twitter.

This week on power user, how banning X upended Stan Twitter and changed the internet landscape forever. It's today explained.

today explained. Washington Post White House Economics

reporter Jeff Stein recently co-wrote The Money War.

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