No, no, you look at a country that size and I am, I am very concerned. I just lay this. And by the way, that's the point. Sanctions work pretty good when it's asymmetric. When you've got a very small economy like Iran, like North Korea, potentially, Cuba hasn't worked. When you've got an economy as large as Russia, you know, couple, couple trillion, there's a lot of interdependencies. We'll never put the type of crippling sanctions because it's a double edged sword. (14:02–14:10)
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Asserts that sanctions are effective against small economies like Iran and North Korea, but not Cuba.
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