In “The United States vs. a Yacht: How the Government Can Take a Russian Oligarch’s $90 Million Superyacht” (Business Insider, 6 April 2022), Juan Zarate comments on the short- and long-term effects of sanctions. While they may not prompt immediate change, he says, “the cumulative effect of sanctions—and the signal that the U.S. is willing to go to great lengths to enforce them—can be incredibly painful in the long term.”
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