American officials reportedy travelled to venezuela over the week end to discuss shoring up supply. From there, it would be a bold economic move on the back of a great many bold moves that together have elevated sanctions from a kind of finger wagging to a choke hold. What's changed here is the bazuka has been brought out on russia with every type of sanction really on the agenda. And the results so far for russia's economy have been devastating.
The West’s co-ordinated financial weaponry is starting to bite, opening a new age of economic conflict; once-unthinkable oil embargoes seem now to be on the table. Taiwan is another democratic country with a big, bullying neighbour; we examine how the war has sparked introspection. And celebrating Pier Paolo Pasolini, a polymathic auteur unjustly known only for his most controversial film.
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