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13:03Now PlayingRobert Pape explains how post–Cold War U.S. capitalism made America “richest off the vacuum,” then dismantles Trump’s Iran strategy by showing that maximum economic pressure and blockades have never toppled regimes, often entrenching brutal rulers like the IRGC while killing civilians through sanctions.
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