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Western powers maintain the ability to enforce sanctions through unrivaled control over global financial infrastructure. The dominance of the U.S. dollar and the euro as reserve currencies, control over international payment systems like Swift, and access to critical technologies such as GPS and cloud computing enable these countries to cut off nations at will. This allows them to impose economic sanctions rapidly, effectively isolating countries from the modern global economy.
Such measures are often justified as necessary for international security or diplomacy, but the speaker argues they primarily serve strategic interests, often at the expense of civilian populations. The well-being of ordinary people is consistently sacrificed to maintain Western geopolitical dominance.