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Comment by kristofferR

5 years ago

> I don't know what led you to believe that russian citizens can just wake up one day and decide to kick out the government, but I am sorry to say that this is not true.

Dude, that is how it works. Due to the nukes, the only ones who can remove Putin is the Russian people.

A large percentage of Russians still support Putin, the sanctions are a great motivator for fixing that issue.

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srg0  5 years ago

And the only way Russian people may get information and organise is online. So let’s disrupt operations of whatever Russian web remains accessible. Watching more propaganda TV should help.

Everyone should respect government imposed sanctions and laws. Infrastructure services should not discriminate beyond that. Denying service based on nationality of the client is akin to discriminating by gender, race, or faith.

Also it’s ok to pull from any market for whatever reason, and not renewing contracts, but kicking paying customers before the term of the (prepaid) service is over is just not cool.

  • kristofferR  5 years ago

    I think you replied to the wrong comment, as I wasn't talking specifically about Namecheap.

    I was simply responding to the claim that it's impossible for the Russian people to remove Putin from office.

Al-Khwarizmi  5 years ago

A great motivator? What a way to misunderstand basic human psychology.

Sanctions just give dictators more excuses to blame everything on external enemies. I honestly don't understand how anyone thinks they can work.

  • kristofferR  5 years ago

    What other alternative reaction to the invasion would you suggest?

    • Al-Khwarizmi  5 years ago

      Send weapons to help the Ukrainian defense (already being done). Also apply sanctions, but only targeted to people in power (e.g. freezing assets in Switzerland, not buying more gas from Russia). I'm aware that these can indirectly affect laypeople (e.g. not buying gas creating unemployment in the gas sector) but that's just life. But what I find dumb is sanctions targeted explicitly at laypeople. Those who don't support their government don't deserve them, and those who do get more reasons to close ranks with their government because "the enemy" is now actively making their lives miserable.

    • frabbit  5 years ago

      Admit to the Ukranians that they have been cruelly used as a cat's paw to prod at the Russian and there never was any "Western" intention to support them.

      Make it clear to Ukraine that their only hope really is being a neutral buffer state.

      Roll back the Romanian and Polish missile bases and the Turkish tracking systems.

      Sign the USA back up to all the missile treaties that they have backed out of.

      That ought to secure another 40 years of fragile peace in Europe.

      Or we could just keep shoving weapons into the Ukraine. Wonder how that will work out? I mean weapons always make things better.

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alinaish  5 years ago

Dude, other countries also have nukes. Other countries are buying russian gas and oil. Other countries can just easily wake up one day and stop buying russian gas. Other countries can also send their troops to ukraine to help. There are a lot of things other countries can do to get rid of the dictator. So why don’t they?