john nash, i'm a president bush, i me you were telling me about how stubborn aside was in the syria, but sanctions on syria were clearly important. although historically they've never worked us sanctions. they obviously have worked on russia. they had their work in cuba, venezuela. their work on north korea has been you need a us troop presence like, occupying the energy fields that it added to the sanctions for it to make an impact . what do you think this means for us sanctions? the fact that they successfully destroyed syria using sanctions as well. it was not just sanctions destroyed, syria. i mean there were a number. ready of other key factors that play as well. uh, 1st of all that. ready just a huge amount of corruption by almost all accounts inside of the serious military. furthermore, there were these oil fields out in the eastern part of syria that before the war produced about $400000000000.00 in revenue. and what happened. ready is that the americans and the kurtz basically. ready took over those oil fields and the amount of money that the syrians are getting from those w

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