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punishment by paperwork: the art of making a country broke without firing a shot.
means official penalties, usually economic, imposed by one country or bloc on another to force a change in behavior.
from from latin sanctio, a decree with teeth, originally the clause that made a law binding by threatening punishment for breaking it.
word ironysanction can mean both permit and punish
biggest targetrussia is now the most sanctioned nation ever
loophole industrywhole banks exist just to dodge them
blunt tooloften hurts citizens more than regimes