Mr. Blahous is a senior research fellow at George Mason University's Mercatus Center and a public trustee of the Social Security and Medicare programs.

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These can range from cutoffs of financial flows to ruling elites, to the establishment of rump trade corridors, to multinational trustee arrangements--say, for public health--that can ameliorate the worst suffering while not being rejected by the incumbent rulers as a threat to their power.

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