Tucker Carlson: “They [U.S. sanctions] were levied with the idea they would…”

“Quite a portfolio at this point. The defining fact, I think, of the economy for more than a decade has been U.S. sanctions, which are very strict. And They [U.S. sanctions] were levied with the idea they would destabilize the regime. Obviously they didn't took Delta Force and directed energy weapons to take out the regime. So they didn't actually affect political change, but they did, they did constrain, they defined your economy.” (02:36–02:48)

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