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The Gist

The Clever Thugs

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Moises Naim on The Revenge of Power: How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics The former Venezuelan trade minister who lived through Chavez wrecking his country has worked out something like the Autocratic Genome Project. What's alarming is that these clever thugs are learning from each other. Plus, the second guilty verdict for Ahmaud Arbery's killers and do sanctions ever really work? Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.

0:10.0

Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is

0:13.6

then sweaty armpits because like you're wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps

0:17.9

and heath and you get to the top and you're like and then you can see the breath

0:22.2

but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

0:25.0

Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

0:30.0

The following program has language that might be offensive depending on your definition of

0:35.2

might and offensive and your understanding of the language.

0:41.6

It's Tuesday February 22nd 2022 from Peachfish Productions. It's the gist I'm Mike Pesca.

0:48.3

After Vladimir Putin absorbed parts of Ukraine into his borg with butterword,

0:54.2

Joe Biden took to the air to announce that his threatened sanctions would become his actual

0:59.7

sanctions. So I'm going to begin to impose sanctions and response far beyond the steps we

1:06.4

and our allies and partners implemented in 2014. And if Russia goes further with this invasion,

1:12.1

we stand prepared to go further as with sanctions. The point about sanctions is,

1:17.9

is there a point to sanctions? There is a common perception that sanctions don't work. While I am

1:23.2

here to tell you that sanctions don't work. What never? Well, hardly ever. I'm going to pin

1:30.0

a four of this one guys. Writing 20 years ago, political scientist Robert Papers noted that the

1:36.1

general consensus in the 60s and 70s were that sanctions weren't effective. But his new research

1:41.8

he was writing in the 90s showed also that sanctions weren't effective. In the 20 years since Bob

1:48.2

Papers' hot takes, China sure rained in that weager nastiness and we all dissuaded Saddam who

1:54.6

sane from trading oil. Okay, those are some high profile failures. What of the present?

1:59.6

Well, the Washington Post notes that quote, sanctions seem to be the main, if not only

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