im thinking thats more the optimistic goal of the west im thinking more sanctions are being used with the stated intent of discouraging war when a portion of the reason is actually to economically attack russia and relegate it to being a minor state except with nuclear capability.Personally I’d be worried about a power vacuum in Russia than Putin.
yeah but the russians cant really do shit about the west. whereas putin might get paranoid enough to find excuses to back off with a shooting the moon goal of a regime change being more out there. really i think this is about attacking russias economic capabilities but it sounds nicer to pretend russia will end the war beyond withdrawing when their occupation fucks up years from now rather than ruining the lives of citizens to cripple a competing interest,You think they are gonna blame putin for this? The west has been shitting on them for YEARS, fucking decades really, but the past few years they've been fucked with hard. YOu are too fucking stupid to realise how this isn't really a "well putin, it's all his fault.. let's go protest and get arrested THAT WILL HELP".. this is just reinforcing what their government have been telling them for years.
Fucking hell you are just retarded.
thats actually the basis of siege tactics and economic superiority is what caused the cold war to end the first place.How do you sanction the elite? Ban international yacht sales? Russian elites had it pretty good during the Cold War; they'll have it good during the new one as well. The idea that we could get rid of governments we don't like by starving out the people and denying them medical supplies and waiting for them to rise up and overthrow their government has, as far as I know, worked a grand total of zero times. Color revolutions have been a more successful strategy, but those generally require pulling a country into our orbit first, betraying some prior handshake agreement we had with them, and throwing their leader to the wolves.
again i hate that the west is actually pulling some scary shit we need to put our eyes on but its being dismissed because we can snidely dismiss one more openly stated goal of the sanctions as overly optimistic or retarded, we are seeing economic warfare and the means by which nations can oust competition with the approval and help of the rest of the world. the thing youre attacking isnt the goal of the sanctions it the excuse used to sell it