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Episodes · 12 months
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Nov 2025–Oct 2026peak share, Apr 2026
Share of analysed episodes per month, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026: 0 of 3,584, 0 of 3,862, 1 of 4,115, 2 of 4,226, 0 of 4,731, 4 of 4,438, 0 of 4,230, 1 of 4,319, 0 of 4,515, 0 of 4,419, 0 of 4,624, 0 of 4,594.
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Where they standLast discussed
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Jun 15, 2026
Where they stand
Camps of opinion · 3Positions people took on this topic in transcripts, grouped by school of thought. The bar shows each camp's share of the people sorted into a camp. It is not a poll and not a share of any audience, and people whose position fit no camp are left out of it. Within a camp, people with demonstrated expertise on the topic come first, then those who reached the most listeners on it. Positions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
Share of people placed in a camp11 people
37%
36%
27%
- Utilize sanctions as strategy4 people · 37%
- Oppose harmful economic coercion4 people · 36%
- Reject ineffective economic measures3 people · 27%
Utilize sanctions as strategy
Economic sanctions are effective and necessary foreign policy tools used to achieve strategic goals and hold bad actors accountable.
4 people · 4 episodes
The United States is effectively engaged in an economic war against Russia, which is a modern and necessary form of warfare that can be sustained to achieve strategic objectives.
“I actually think we are at war. But it's the most positive form of it in the sense that we are learning a different kind of warfare. Now, if you think about how we used to fight up until basically uh the Persian Gulf War, it was armaments and tanks. And then that evolved in the Middle East because w”
The All-In Podcast · Mar 2022 · 3 episodes · 663K views on this topic
Implementing targeted asset freezes and travel bans, such as those in the Magnitsky Act, is an effective way to hold corrupt officials accountable.
“The idea was that we would freeze their assets in the west and ban their travel to the west. And that became known as the Magnitzky Act.”
The Rest Is Politics: Leading · Feb 2026 · 1 episode · 364K views on this topicCP
Crown Prince Reza PahlaviUnrated
Maximum pressure through sanctions effectively curtailed the regime's resources and should be combined with maximum support for the Iranian people.
“Clearly, what we saw under President Trump's administration was something that proved to be effective. And that was maximum pressure on the regime.”
PBD Podcast · Nov 2024 · 1 episode · 325K views on this topicOppose harmful economic coercion
Sanctions function as acts of violence or inhumane strategies that primarily cause civilian suffering rather than achieving policy goals.
4 people · 4 episodes
Economic strangulation and blockades, such as those imposed on Cuba, cause severe humanitarian suffering without achieving the intended political goals.
“Because the blockade is real. The humanitarian suffering is real.”
Philip DeFranco · Apr 2026 · 1 episode · 737K views on this topic
US economic sanctions against Cuba constitute a form of economic violence and an international war crime intended to immiserate the population.
“So, Trump is strangling Cuba. They're doing a thing called siege warfare. That's an war, international war crime. They've cut off all the uh fuel. They've cut they've sanctioned every country if you do business with them.”
The Jimmy Dore Show · Feb 2026 · 3 episodes · 453K views on this topicBB
The US blockade is intentionally designed to cause suffering for the Cuban people as a strategic tool to incite an overthrow of the government.
“The goal here of hurting regular Cubans. Like the goal of killing Carlos rather than allowing him to live is to make his family that survives angry at the government so that they then go into the streets and overthrow the Cuban government”
Breaking Points · Apr 2026 · 1 episode · 206K views on this topicReject ineffective economic measures
Sanctions against countries like Russia are economically self-defeating, legally questionable, or fail to achieve their stated objectives.
3 people · 2 episodes
MS
Mark SlebodaUnrated
Mark Sleboda claims that US sanctions against Russia have failed to crush the Russian economy and have instead spurred Russia's economic growth.
“Russia's economy grew faster than the US's last year that is and you're absolutely right the deindustrialization of Germany as a result of no longer having access to cheap reliable Russian gas to fuel their economy it's dragging all of Europe into an economic doldrums”
The Jimmy Dore Show · Oct 2024 · 1 episode · 150K views on this topic
Europe's attempt to use frozen Russian assets as a down payment on future reparations is a dishonest strategy that will leave the European Union without a seat at the table in future peace negotiation
“By insisting on reparations when nothing is suggesting that Putin will be forced to surrender. I mean, they're not even putting boots on the ground. If they were serious about treating him as a new Hitler, they would have done that. By insisting however on reparations when there is no prospect of fo”
UnHerd · Oct 2025 · 1 episode · 84K views on this topicWM
Wolfgang MunchauUnrated
Sequestering Russia's frozen assets in Europe is an economically and geopolitically self-defeating measure that lacks legal certainty.
“My conventional wisdom today is the narrative widely held in Brussels and Western capitals that Europe is helping Ukraine and striking a powerful blow against Russia by sequestering Russia's assets held in Europe. I'm going to argue that this is not only legally questionable but economically and geo”
UnHerd · Oct 2025 · 1 episode · 84K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
In the transcripts
Episodes discussing this topicIncludes episodes tagged with a narrower subject. Each is marked with the subject it came in through.
Over time
Share of episodesThis topic's episodes as a share of every episode we analysed, in each complete month. We analyse more episodes every month, so a raw count would mostly show that growth. Recent months fill in as transcripts are analysed.
Complete months · first on record Feb 2022