03-03-2022, 01:30 PM
(03-03-2022, 01:18 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I think the effectiveness of these sanctions is dependent on the country. Because of the propaganda machine in Russia, the people are not going to see this as the government being punished for doing wrong. They also don't have a real mechanism to do anything about it. Russia is only nominally democratic and they are oppressive of free speech beyond just about any western nation and even if there were avenues to do something, the majority of the country has been fed this propaganda for so long that they believe Russia is still in the right on this. Meaning, of course, that the sanctions are seen as attacks on Russia and not a justified retaliation.
Right...and so these sanctions will legitimately ruin lives...and those lives ruined will only blame the west. We're going to breed another generation of western hatred in another country....for what?
Again I don't have any better ideas but I feel like we should know better by now.
