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Journalist Derek Davison (https://twitter.com/dwdavison) discusses how Russian sanctions are backfiring, plus the latest elections in Colombia, France and Israel.

Derek Davison began his journalistic career by covering the 2014 Ukraine crisis and the 2015 Iran nuclear deal talks for LobeLog, where he later served as editor. Around that time, he started a blog that eventually evolved into the Substack newsletter Foreign Exchanges (https://fx.substack.com/). He is the co-host of the American Prestige podcast. He has degrees in Middle East Studies and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago.