For those who don’t know, I’ve been in the UK the past couple of weeks and I just returned a few days ago. I’m over the jet lag now (thanks for asking!) and thought I’d ease back in to the weekly newsletter with some random notes and observations from my travels. Also, for Corbett Report members, there’s a Subscriber Exclusive video with some more thoughts on my travel experience down below (you’ll have to be logged in to see it, though).

Imposing sanctions on a country is a way of waging war against that country. It’s not just that economic embargoes can cripple nations’ economies nor that they tend to disproportionately affect innocent civilians. No, the reality is even more stark than that: sanctions kill. Don’t believe me? Let’s look at some of the examples of how sanctions have been used throughout history as a tool of warfare.