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Mark Dubowitz, of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, who is an architect of the US sanctions on Iran, said carefully scripted, escalating sanctions against companies connected to Gazprom could build pressure on Putin. "You do an analysis of every individual, affiliate, subsidiary, financial institution, key supplier and any other related entities and you start sanctioning every one of them as you move closer and closer in on Gazprom as the target," he wrote in an email. "Another variation of the 'kill the chickens to scare the monkey' theory of sanctions."
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