Sanctions Backfired: How US Policy Empowered Russia & Iran
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This thought-provoking discussion challenges the efficacy of Western sanctions, arguing they've inadvertently empowered adversaries. The speaker highlights how restricting access to Western banking and systems like Swift has failed to curb countries like Iran and Russia, instead pushing them towards self-sufficiency and strength.
Discover how Russia, despite a significantly smaller budget, is now out-building and out-designing US military weapons due to forced internal investment and industrial growth. The conversation further delves into concerns about legitimizing "terrorist regimes" and a broader critique of globalist influences and flawed US foreign policy, warning against setting dangerous precedents in the global community.
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Transcript
restricting their access to Western banking has clearly not prevented them from developing and acquiring the weapons that they need to control the straight of Hormuz. So, you know, what's the logic here to say, well we have to keep restricting them because that didn't work. You know what I mean, you know what I mean? It's the same thing with Russia, right? Like it was, oh, let's sanction Russia, cut them off from Swift, and it's going to destroy their economy. Well, it didn't. It actually, it forced all the Russian billionaires to invest in their own country. And so they built up their own industry and infrastructure, their steel industry, aluminum mining, weapons manufacturing. And now Russia, even with a fraction of the US military budget is outbuilding and out-designing US military weapons with all their advanced, you know, the buda Vestnik, the the Orechnik, the Kinzol, you know, the electromagnetic warfare system. I mean, air defense systems. How are they doing that at a fraction of our budget? Because because they had to. Yeah, that's not complicated. They don't pay their people as well. Uh and they'll still work or else. Well, but it's also, I mean, ...
