> It's personally been very eye-opening for me over the past decade to see just how much the size of a country's economy can wielded as club to silence internat

> It's personally been very eye-opening for me over the past decade to see just how much the size of a country's economy can wielded as club to silence international opposition and how easily the international community goes along with it. Just the last decade? The United States has been doing this to other countries for the last century or more. The British Empire did it for hunreds of years before that.