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Putting pressure on Russian citizens motivates them to protest and take action inside of their country. The Ukrainians didn't have a choice either. I'd much ra
by mmastrac 5y ago
Putting pressure on Russian citizens motivates them to protest and take action inside of their country. The Ukrainians didn't have a choice either.
I'd much rather have the US heavily-handededly knock down the Russian economy than the alternative of involving itself militarily.
- tuyguntn 5y agoHow about side effect of sanctions? People might say: look how West is behaving, when America invaded other countries or when NATO bombed Yugoslavia no one sanctioned them, but they are doing it to us, they hate us At the end of the day Ukraine will be in ruins, so sanctions don't help
- polski-g 5y ago> Putting pressure on Russian citizens motivates them to protest and take action inside of their country Is there any evidence this has occurred in the past? Didn't work in Iran, Iraq, North Korea...
- asveikau 5y agoNot sanctions, but ironically Ukraine is a place where popular uprisings worked. In 2005 and 2014. (Though if you buy the Russian line, it was all Nazis or something.)