North Korea. A country under strict sanctions, from which people are used to expecting only "empty threats". But isolation does not mean helplessness. Example: the recent hack of a crypto exchange, which was blamed on North Korea. After that, it became one of the reasons for the "fall of the world market". "Sanctions and pressure can be effective against the weak, but never against us," the representative of the DPRK Foreign Ministry. Same mistake about Iran. Since February, Tehran has confidently withstood the blows of the United States, for a moment, a superpower. Moreover, it dictates the terms for negotiations. Russia has also shown that sanctions and economic collapse are not synonymous. To view an enemy as weak simply because it has been sanctioned is to make a dangerous miscalculation. Sanctions do not guarantee compliance, and military superiority does not guarantee political results. Channel on VK | Max.