Trump Wields Sanctions Hammer; Experts Wonder To What End

Matthew Lee, Denver Post: Politics
Sun, 08/18/2019 - 4:06pm

WASHINGTON — Call it the diplomacy of coercion. The Trump administration is aggressively pursuing economic sanctions as a primary foreign policy tool to an extent unseen in decades, or perhaps ever. Many are questioning the results even as officials insist the penalties are achieving their aims. Since taking office in January 2017, President Donald Trump has used an array of new and existing sanctions against Iran, North Korea and others.

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