Trump May Be Leaving, But Russia Sanctions Will Stay

... Afghanistan in response to the terrorist attack, but continued in the “democracy promotion” campaign in the Middle East. The history of the erosion of the procedure by which the United States makes foreign policy decisions is important in the context of sanctions. Trump’s opponents in Congress quickly discovered they lacked instruments to rein in the head of state’s despotic tendencies with regard to foreign policy. The most prominent and functional instrument they did have was sanctions, hence the sharp rise ...