Device X is an implant that will be in your brain hippocampus. This device will give you the power to completely delete memories that you don't want to retain at anytime only by your own choice. Once deleted that memory cannot be restored again. This device cannot be removed at any point of time in your life.

Political satire is the use of humor and exaggeration to criticize or ridicule aspects of government and public affairs. The effect of this kind of satire rests on the use of allusion, a reference to a well-known person, event, or thing, and caricature, which exaggerates some feature of what is being referenced.

Traditional economic sanctions are targeted at trade and business betwen two specific countries. 

Extraterritorial sanctions target neutral countries in the conflict. E.G. when the US threatened to sanction European countries and firms if they did not cooperate with the US' sanctions on Iran, Russia and Cuba.