The Iran Deal That Isn’t Quite Yet
Trade negotiators like to say that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. And that is a useful way to understand the less-than-meets-the-eye agreement last week between Iran and the ...
Tag: Sanctions
The U.S.-Europe Divide on How to Hurt Moscow
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the West’s divide on how best to stop Russia’s war in Ukraine, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s conviction, and potential U.S.-Qatar ...
My Theory Says Sanctions on Russia Won’t Work. So Why Do I Want Them Anyway?
It has been more than 40 months since Russia invaded Ukraine, which means that it has been more than 40 months of economic sanctions being imposed on Russia. The very ...
Europe and the U.S. Still Haven’t Choked Off Russia’s Energy Riches
One would think, three and a half years into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, that the West could come up with a way to choke off Russia’s energy exports, still the ...
Putin’s Fear of a Humiliating Economic Crisis
No one knows what Russian President Vladimir Putin was hoping to achieve when he embarked on a nine-hour flight from Moscow to Alaska to meet U.S. President Donald Trump last ...
China Condemns European Countries for ‘Snapback’ Sanctions on Iran
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Friday condemned France, Germany, and the United Kingdom for invoking the “snapback” provision of the Iran nuclear deal, beginning a 30-day countdown for United Nations ...
Trump’s Lethal Landscapers
Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report. Some personnel news: We’re excited to welcome Sam Skove as FP’s newest staff writer! Sam joins us from Politico, where he covered space, ...
Report: China Meeting Its Massive Oil Demand with Illicit Shipments from Russia, Iran, Venezuela
The Financial Times (FT) on Wednesday published a report co-authored with a research group called C4ADS about a complex global network that is moving huge amounts of oil from Russia, ...
Trump Slaps Sanctions on Palestinian Authority; Blocks Officials from Traveling to UN for ‘Palestinian State’
President Donald Trump’s administration slapped sanctions on the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) for seeking statehood outside of a formal agreement with Israel, per U.S. law. It ...
Kellogg: We Aren’t Really Enforcing Russian Oil Sanctions, If We Did, ‘They Start to Bite’
On Tuesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Special Presidential Envoy for Russia and Ukraine Keith Kellogg said that the United States has not really gone after Russia’s money flows ...
