translator: i think to start with, these sanctions go in contravention to all international norms and regulations. the u.s. has always advocated the freedom of market, the openness of economy. for a very long time, the u.s. has taught everyone they have to learn themselves that the world economy shouldn t affect the economy because it s going to interfere with it. but they has done exactly that what they admonished everyone against doing. everything that has happened, everything that triggered and caused the introduction of these restrictions were was not due
let s talk about those sanctions, which have now been in place by the europeans and by the united states since 2014 against russia. do you believe they ve hurt more than helped? translator: i think to start with, these sanct go in contravention to all international norms and regulations. the u.s. has always added the case of freedom of market, the openness of economy. for a very long time the u.s. has told everyone they had to learn themselves that the world economy shouldn t affect the economy because it s going to interfere with it, but they have
intelligence reporter is that it would be very hard, given how the dispersal of the targets,ço actually wipe out the program, right? is that the general sense, eli? yeah, i mean i think that the policy for bush and for netanyahu and for obama and everybody else has been a combination of clandestine sabotage at times it gets to the point of killing scientists for i guess the israeli side. sanctions to try to pressure the regime. and then you know, the natural result is that you pressure a regime, you give them the opportunity to pull a gadhafi. and to do that. and so, the fact that they re in negotiations at the moment when their central bank could be cut off from the world economy shouldn t surprise anybody. that s exactly what the policy is the question is do you think this regime will respond to pressure on its citizenry. and that seems to me to be an open question. i think that s an interesting question. because i think that, this is something you ve written an entire book a