Comment by datavirtue
5 years ago
It's a sanction. Meant to cause contention within their society to promote regime change. Think of it as tough love.
5 years ago
It's a sanction. Meant to cause contention within their society to promote regime change. Think of it as tough love.
If you look at what both Europe and Ukraine is doing right now with sanctions, they're being a bit more clever.
- You want to turn Russians against Putin, yes. But you don't want to have those same people hate Ukraine/US.
- For example, sanctioning a hospital or stopping sales of food or medical supplies into Russia would be a stupid sanction. Forbidding oligarchs from living luxury lives in Europe is a good one.
- Right now, most sanctions are focused on the wealthy and influential Russians, since those are the ones that have any sway.
- My guess is that the vast majority of Namecheap customer's are exactly the ones that will protest against Putin, or organize information campaigns aginst him.
- Obviously sanctioning Kasparov or Navalny would be the dumbest move. This is sort of in that same category.
As an American I neither believe in such group punishment no any “guilty for sins of the father.”
If you live in your father’s home while he is murdering your neighbors for their land, you do have a responsibility to stop him or share in his fate.
Just to be clear: so are you taking responsibility for all the innocent people your country has killed throughout its existence?
Here's my thoughts: Just because you are tricked into voting fake elections with puppets on both sides, the dirty business your elites do in poor parts of the world to make themselves richer is not your responsibility.
I was born in Russia but I live in the UK. I don’t give a shit about Russian regime nor support the war. For what reason I got punished for being Russian citizen? How’s that different from nazis blaming Jewish for being Jewish?
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