> As a Russian, I'd love them to have a way more severe impact, as I would happily endure great hardships if this would weaken Putin's fascist regime. As a Rus

> As a Russian, I'd love them to have a way more severe impact, as I would happily endure great hardships if this would weaken Putin's fascist regime. As a Russian, I remember being trolled by the following joke, very popular among pseudo-liberals and other russophobic lot: "When lords will demand that every Russian must have a boot their asses by saturday, they will form a line in Friday to get this over with faster." I can't stop laughing over how ironic this whole thing turned out.