al-jazeera is former cia analyst philip giraldi thank you for joining me today thank you for having me. so u.s. secretary of the treasury steven munch and stated that the sanctions against china singapore and russia those were related to assistance provided or trades made with north korea and in an official statement he said the tactics that these entities based in china singapore and russia are using to attempt to evade the sanctions are prohibited under u.s. law and all facets of the shipping industry have a responsibility to abide by them or expose themselves to serious risks can you help my myself as well as our viewers at home kind of understand the logic behind the tactic of imposing economic sanctions on foreign sovereign nations for not following us saw and how that makes sense and also what does this work better than diplomacy. well it depends on how you look at it and which side of the fence you're looking from. i think the united states at this point has basically given up on diplomacy. we've seen this very much over the past year plus in terms of how the state department ha

al-jazeera is former cia analyst philip giraldi thank you for joining me today thank you for having me. so u.s. secretary of the treasury stephen munch and stated that the sanctions against china singapore and russia those were related to assistance provided or trades made with north korea and in an official statement he said the tactics that these entities based in china singapore and russia are using to attempt to evade the sanctions are prohibited under u.s. law and all facets of the shipping industry have a responsibility to abide by them or expose themselves to serious risks can you help my myself as well as our viewers at home kind of understand the logic behind the tactic of imposing economic sanctions on foreign sovereign nations for not following us saw and how that makes sense and also what does this work better than diplomacy. well it depends on how you look at it and which side of the fence you're looking from. i think the united states at this point has basically given up on diplomacy. we've seen this very much over the past year plus in terms of how the state department h

al-jazeera is former cia analyst philip giraldi thank you for joining me today. thank you for having me. so u.s. secretary of the treasury steven munch and stated that the sanctions against china singapore and russia those were related to assistance provided or trades made with north korea and in an official statement he said that tactic that means entities based in china singapore and russia are using to attempt to evade the sanctions are prohibited under u.s. law and all facets of the shipping industry have a responsibility to abide by them or expose themselves to serious rests can you help myself as well as our viewers at home kind of understand the logic behind the tactic of imposing economic sanctions on foreign sovereign nations for not following us saw and how that makes sense and also what does this work better than diplomacy well it depends on how you look at it and which side of the fence you're looking from. i think the united states at this point has basically given up on diplomacy. we've seen this very much over the past year plus in terms of how the