Americans frequently hear things like, US will 'impose sanctions' against so and so..................
Most Americans do not recognize what that usually means, or what the sordid history of it has been, in practice.
It usually means that some Administration financial aid, trade concession, or gift program, which had previously been provided to a foreign regime by the Administration at taxpayer expense and, almost invariably, to the detriment of domestic economic interests, will now be withdrawn from the undeserving foreign rascals, as a sanction or punishment, for not obeying some unrealistic and misguided Administration directive.
If I have gotten this wrong, somehow, maybe someone who knows more about it can set me straight?
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