Collective punishment or effective sanction? Europe weighs banning Russian tourists

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KYIV, Ukraine — Outraged and anguished after six months of war in Ukraine, Europe is wrestling over a question with deep diplomatic and moral implications: whether to ban Russian travelers.

Kyiv’s allies have been aghast at the split-screen juxtaposition of Russian tourists sunning themselves on Mediterranean beaches while many Ukrainians spend some of their summer in bomb shelters, dodging missiles and artillery.

Fueled by a plea from Ukraine’s government earlier this month, the debate over visa bans is raging from Brussels to Washington, underscoring longstanding fractures within the West over how aggressively to confront Russia in the war’s next phase.

At the heart of the moral question hanging over European capitals is the Russian public’s culpability: Whether ordinary citizens, by putting up little visible opposition, are enabling President Vladimir Putin’s war.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-ukraine-war-europe-sanctions-tourist-ban-vacations-moscow-putin-rcna44761

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1. It is a clear message to the Russian people that they too are responsible for the actions of their

government and that the world finds their lack of action to be too repugnant to want to associate with them. Let them vacation in Tula.

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2. I would be suspicious of any Russian that is permitted

to leave the country. He wants all the cannon folder to stay in Russia.