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Jeff Flake: “In my experience, unilateral economic sanctions by themselves rarely, if ever, achieve their intended goal.”

On the recordJune 7, 2016
In my experience, unilateral economic sanctions by themselves rarely, if ever, achieve their intended goal.
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Jeff Flake
Republican · Arizona

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Flake expresses skepticism about the effectiveness of unilateral economic sanctions.

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