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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm all for all these sanctions on Russia
and the foreign companies suspending operations, but it's mostly affecting the general public, not the government officials who can get whatever they want, legally or illegally. People being laid off or fired, products not available, and so forth. I have to hope something happens inside Russia before too long or the Russian public is going to be in serious trouble.
Swede
(33,256 posts)Piss off the populace and they turn on their leaders. Doesn't seem to be any other way.
Karadeniz
(22,536 posts)Pantagruel
(2,580 posts)Russians start asking why their country is being ostracized.They need to be shaken awake to take back their government.
Caliman73
(11,738 posts)The goal is to hurt the leaders, but the less powerful always get hurt first and worst. It may also serve to cause internal instability. Russians hurt by the sanctions may decide enough is enough, though with the strength of the repression and propaganda inside Russia, that may be a bridge too far.
calguy
(5,313 posts)but their plight pales in comparison to what the Ukrainian people are feeling.
grumpyduck
(6,240 posts)the Russian government (or part of it) is behind both problems.
Hopefully the foreign hackers will hit the government where it hurts.
Scrivener7
(50,955 posts)There was one about a soldier in Ukraine whose mother in Russia simply would not believe what her soldier daughter was telling her was happening before her daughter's eyes "because Russians wouldn't do that."
I have no beef with the Russian people, but neither do I think they can blithely continue to allow their leaders the permission to trash the world in this moronic dick measuring contest.
The Russian people need to be woken up.
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)ck4829
(35,077 posts)Here's the list of what you can buy:
* Destroy Ukraine - 1$
* Ostracism on the world stage - 1$
* You and your fellow citizens are hurting - 1$
* But Kremlin and the Oligarchs are fine - 1$
* Increased chance of nuclear war - 1$
* Overthrow Putin and the Kremlin - 5$
What are Russians going to choose?
atreides1
(16,079 posts)All indications point to the first five options...because enough believe what they're being told by the current government!!!
* Destroy Ukraine - 1$
* Ostracism on the world stage - 1$
* You and your fellow citizens are hurting - 1$
* But Kremlin and the Oligarchs are fine - 1$
* Increased chance of nuclear war - 1$
This option might come into play once they can't put food on their tables or buying a loaf of bread takes a wheelbarrow full of rubles...
* Overthrow Putin and the Kremlin - 5$
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)Wingus Dingus
(8,054 posts)Nictuku
(3,614 posts)AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)Also, the only sanctions which will truly work is embargo on energy sector. Europe and the world should be prepared to absorb the cost in order to destroy putin. This could be short lived. But if EU continues to buy natural gas from Russia, putin will continue to have power. Would you rather not have a heater, have high prices or live under threat of death like Ukraine?
Wingus Dingus
(8,054 posts)I don't know another, better way to halt this atrocity.
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)If Putin and his thugs ignore them, then they will pay the piper in the long run.
Freedom and Liberty demand sacrifices if they are to be achieved and held.
Ask any remaining member of the Greatest Generation.