How the U.S. wages 'economic warfare'
Children pass by a mural depicting Uncle Sam in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, May 18, 2022. (Ariana Cubillos/AP)
The U.S. has slapped sanctions on nations across the globe at an unprecedented rate over the last quarter century, with almost a third of countries having some form of sanction imposed against it.
It has been a popular tactic among the last four presidents to hamper regimes they deem dangerous to the U.S. and those nations’ own people. But a Washington Post series of articles explores if such sanctions are as successful as the government wants them to be, their impact, and why there has been such a proliferation of sanctioning.
The Washington Post’s Jeff Stein has been writing about this. He joins host Anthony Brooks for more.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
