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economic-statecraft

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, architect of US economic sanctions coercion doctrine, stands with Congressman Byron Donalds in a congressional hearing room, May 2025.

564,258 die yearly as Treasury calls it statecraft

Peer-reviewed research puts sanctions deaths at 564,258 a year; Scott Bessent gave the machine behind that toll a new…