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In many ways, the oligarch jet movements are a positive sign: they're having to move around (or at least move their assets around) and incur both significant co
by azalemeth 5y ago
In many ways, the oligarch jet movements are a positive sign: they're having to move around (or at least move their assets around) and incur both significant cost and scrutiny in the process. For all you know, a Bermudan registered Gulfstream moving from Monaco to SVO, Moscow, contains a pissed off oligarch watching his lifestyle and investments crumble.
Or, it could be a strategic hedge to ensure he retains control of the jet.
Either way, the sanctions are causing an effect, and by all accounts a significant one. Battles are won or lost by explosives, inexplicably awful things and largely brave men being sacrificed, by their choice or others. Wars are won or lost by economics.
- adultSwim 5y agoI worry a little that we will test the limits of sanctions. Sanctions kill, yet are often not considered an act of war. We are used to imposing them on countries with little world power or ability to fight back. If the sanctions are harsh enough, is there potential for a military response?
- dragonwriter 5y agoThere's a risk of that if we don't abide by Putin’s demands to back NATO away from its existing positions as well as stopping expansion. Binary “is there a risk” questions are mostly not useful, because the answer is almost always yes.