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• Laser@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sure… Their anger will be directed at Putin, not at who actually imposed those sanctions.

  I am worried that these sanctions will make them band together and support Putin even more.

  And then what? They’ll go to war even harder? And if Putin is such a good leader, why doesn’t he just have Russia produce alternatives to the goods and services under sanctions?

  The old status quo without sanctions got the world into the current situation. Why would keeping it the same fix it?

  One could also make the opposite case for your logic: I am worried that without sanctions, people will see Putin as a strong leader, and as such hand together and support him even more.

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  • Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sanctions have not succeeded in lessening support or created regime change. They are a siege warfare tactic, and a way of inflicting suffering upon the masses of people. There’s plenty of books on the topic, I’d recommend Sanctions as War, edited by Stuart Davis and Immanuel Ness.

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  • nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well, I never argued for not sanctioning them. I just think it’s kind of fucked either way…

    And I don’t know if you noticed or not, unfortunately, the sanctions aren’t working that well… Maybe the answer is more sanctions? idk

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    • Laser@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And I don’t know if you noticed or not, unfortunately, the sanctions aren’t working that well… Maybe the answer is more sanctions? idk

      I’m in favor of more of them, but I don’t think the current ones aren’t working. It was clear from the beginning that they’d be escalating so that Russia has a way out. They’re not using it so sanctions get worse.

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• meneervana@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Could go both ways, but really the change has to come from within, they will have to change this in the end

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