WHY AMERICA STOPPED SANCTIONING RUSSIA — The Sanctioner's Reversal

Описание: On Friday, October 16, 2026, President Trump signed an executive order waiving most of the sanctions and tariffs in the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act — a law he had signed four weeks earlier, and one Congress had passed 86 to 11 in the Senate. The order landed two days before the first tariffs were to take effect. The sanctioner looked at his own weapon, did the math, and stood down.

This documentary reconstructs the reversal: the Graham Act machinery (500% tariffs on Russia, 100% secondary tariffs on the top five buyers of Russian oil and gas), the October 9 diesel deal with Putin, the five-day energy ceasefire that collapsed, and the real reason the waiver happened — midterms, diesel prices, and a warming to Moscow. Winners: India, China, Russia. The bill went to Europe — and to Ukraine's grid engineers, keeping the lights on by flashlight.

We covered how sanctions get evaded; this is the story of sanctions getting cancelled.

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CHAPTERS:
00:05 Hook
00:41 Chapter One — The Friday Order
02:29 Chapter Two — The Machinery
04:22 Chapter Three — The Diesel Deal
06:48 Chapter Four — Why He Waived
10:01 Chapter Five — Winners and Losers
11:48 Chapter Six — Three Futures
13:06 Chapter Seven — What the Map Remembers