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From the inside, it doesn't quite look that way. The state has been doing a lot to become less reliant on imports in the last decade. If you also consider exam

From the inside, it doesn't quite look that way. The state has been doing a lot to become less reliant on imports in the last decade. If you also consider examples of North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba and many other dictatorships, you'll see that isolation doesn't really correlate with regime change.

jacquesm 5y ago
Yes, understood. I get where you are coming from, but at the same time I totally understand that for a company with such a large footprint in Ukraine it is absolutely unacceptable to continue to do business with what is now properly termed 'the enemy'. The price for access to the global market is that you behave like a team player and that you don't willy nilly invade other countries. Even if isolation does not necessarily correlate with regime change that is still something that in the end gets decided within the country, not outside of it. After all, regime change is exactly what Putin was after in Ukraine so that would seem to be fair turnabout.
- yrgulation 5y ago
  This war has created such pain and damage in only a few days its unimaginable. See my previous comments for my position on russians, but at the same time, out of solidarity i think they should move out of namecheap. Its too sensitive for the company to debate it and process it. People that last week were working at tech giants, people like you and i, were here commenting and debating and now they need to hold guns in their hands and fight in a war started by russia while their families are displaced. So out of solidarity, russian users could move their domain names out and leave it as is.
  - jacquesm 5y ago
    > This war has created such pain and damage in only a few days its unimaginable. Not to spoil your evening but it is so far perfectly imaginable, though it very well could become unimaginable soon.
    - yrgulation 5y ago
      I am well aware. Tbh i am trying to figure in my mind what the first target will be. Hope its just and overreaction on my part. Edit: grammar
      - jacquesm 5y ago
        At a guess a minor city in the North East of Ukraine, or one in Europe away from fall-out ending up over Russia. The latter would not be worth thinking about any further, you can kiss the world goodbye in that case. The 'lets start with a small nuke' aka tit-for-tat scenario has been wargamed literally to death: it ends with total annihilation.
        stickfigure 5y ago
        I don't think Putin is that brave. But he's also perfectly capable of killing millions of Ukranians with conventional weapons.
        jacquesm 5y ago
        That will have the exact same effect. Why do you think Kyiv is still standing relatively unopposed? It's not as if Russia lacks bombers. But Putin knows very well that if they are moving for a Grozny scenario that the West will have to react, initially probably by wiping out the invaders in the hope that that will put an end to this but it may well escalate from there.
paulryanrogers 5y ago
True however isolation does help limit the damage they can cause through influence and soft power
mkr-hn 5y ago
All of those countries have support from larger countries that aren't party to the sanctions/embargoes they face. Russia is the entirety or a substantial part of that support. Who does Russia turn to that wouldn't worry about being similarly isolated?

jacquesm 5y ago

Yes, understood. I get where you are coming from, but at the same time I totally understand that for a company with such a large footprint in Ukraine it is absolutely unacceptable to continue to do business with what is now properly termed 'the enemy'. The price for access to the global market is that you behave like a team player and that you don't willy nilly invade other countries. Even if isolation does not necessarily correlate with regime change that is still something that in the end gets decided within the country, not outside of it. After all, regime change is exactly what Putin was after in Ukraine so that would seem to be fair turnabout.

yrgulation 5y ago
This war has created such pain and damage in only a few days its unimaginable. See my previous comments for my position on russians, but at the same time, out of solidarity i think they should move out of namecheap. Its too sensitive for the company to debate it and process it. People that last week were working at tech giants, people like you and i, were here commenting and debating and now they need to hold guns in their hands and fight in a war started by russia while their families are displaced. So out of solidarity, russian users could move their domain names out and leave it as is.
- jacquesm 5y ago
  > This war has created such pain and damage in only a few days its unimaginable. Not to spoil your evening but it is so far perfectly imaginable, though it very well could become unimaginable soon.
  - yrgulation 5y ago
    I am well aware. Tbh i am trying to figure in my mind what the first target will be. Hope its just and overreaction on my part. Edit: grammar
    - jacquesm 5y ago
      At a guess a minor city in the North East of Ukraine, or one in Europe away from fall-out ending up over Russia. The latter would not be worth thinking about any further, you can kiss the world goodbye in that case. The 'lets start with a small nuke' aka tit-for-tat scenario has been wargamed literally to death: it ends with total annihilation.
      - stickfigure 5y ago
        I don't think Putin is that brave. But he's also perfectly capable of killing millions of Ukranians with conventional weapons.
        jacquesm 5y ago
        That will have the exact same effect. Why do you think Kyiv is still standing relatively unopposed? It's not as if Russia lacks bombers. But Putin knows very well that if they are moving for a Grozny scenario that the West will have to react, initially probably by wiping out the invaders in the hope that that will put an end to this but it may well escalate from there.

paulryanrogers 5y ago

True however isolation does help limit the damage they can cause through influence and soft power

mkr-hn 5y ago

All of those countries have support from larger countries that aren't party to the sanctions/embargoes they face. Russia is the entirety or a substantial part of that support. Who does Russia turn to that wouldn't worry about being similarly isolated?