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sanctions like these only alienate (otherwise mostly pro-democracy) people from US/West. Do impose sanctions on individuals who are associated with the rules o
by option 7y ago
sanctions like these only alienate (otherwise mostly pro-democracy) people from US/West.
Do impose sanctions on individuals who are associated with the rules of undemocratic regimes. But punishing whole populations (especially if they don’t have a democratic voice in the matter) is dumb and immoral.
- fredthomsen 7y agoThis. The ruling class in the countries can still get the products and services they want. Can someone actually point to a case where broad sanctions like this has made a difference? Cuba has survived these sanctions for decades. When politians like Marco Rubio says the regime is about to break if we keep the pressure on, I just laugh.
- option 7y agothe UK is especially disgusting in this. For example, Chelsea is still owned by Abramovich (a close Putin’s ally) who has no trouble traveling, buying property and otherwise enjoying what West has to offer. Tons of “Untied Russia” party members own property in Miami and London with no issues whatsoever
- SpicyLemonZest 7y agoIt’s hard to prove causation, but South Africa only started making real progress towards ending apartheid after broad sanctions started getting passed.
- amfsn 7y agoIt's the time of China, I doubt this would work anymore.
- wongarsu 7y agoI agree. Back during the cold war we used to run radio stations broadcasting into enemy territory to create sympathy and show that we are humans too. Today we seem to be doing the opposite.
- gotts 7y agoWhat's the alternative? Keeping the status quo and pretending like nothing significant happened when some country decides to annex another country's soil in 21th century? In that case loosing moral ground would alienate people from US/West even more.
- fredthomsen 7y agoWell not sanction the country that got annexed for starters. If you are going to annex a whole country, which I am not advocating, then sanction Russia
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- jwieczorek 7y agoEspecially when they democratically voted in favour of being part of Russia. This is essentially a punishment for them for voting the way they did.