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Re:Skirting U.S. sanctions, Europeans launch trade mechanism... by tomp on Thursday January 31, 2019 @12:16PM (#19046464)
Was that because of trade sanctions, or because the regimes were (internally) unsustainable? (Honest question, I'm not old enough to know.)
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Re:Skirting U.S. sanctions, Europeans launch trade mechanism... by misja on Friday February 01, 2019 @06:03AM (#19053210)
The first US Sanctions against South Africa took into effect in 1986, 5 years later the Apartheid system was ended.

See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Anti-Apartheid_A...

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