Are the Sanctions the United States’ New Best Friend or Worst Enemy?

Are the Sanctions the United States’ New Best Friend or Worst Enemy?
Plastic letters arranged to read "Sanctions" are placed in front the flag colors of U.S. and Russia in this illustration taken Feb. 28, 2022. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Monika Palotai
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Ongoing global sanctions will shape and determine the post-Putin era. Economic warfare can easily backfire and turn once pro-American energy dependent countries into pariahs and push Russia toward the United States’ adversaries. The sanctions-triggered geopolitical changes all point in one direction: China.

Monika Palotai
Monika Palotai
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Monika Palotai is a Hungarian visiting research fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., specializing in international and EU law.
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