Every regime Washington has tried to sanction into surrender is still standing, or fell to something else
Cuba is on decade seven of the embargo.
North Korea answered the harshest sanctions on earth by stealing crypto and renting soldiers to Putin.
Russia was supposed to lose half its economy in 2022 and lost 1.4%.
Venezuela’s economy shrank by three quarters, the worst collapse ever recorded outside wartime, and Maduro was still in the presidential palace when the helicopters came.
Notice how the two exits actually happened. Assad fell to rebels. Maduro fell to American commandos.
Nobody sanctioned their way out.
Iran has spent 45 years learning this material.
It runs a parallel banking system with China, trades across every land border it has, and just spent a week telling the world’s capitals it will not be moved.
Operation Economic Outcast is betting on an ending the record says doesn’t exist, and Washington has taken the other endings off the table.
Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.