Comment by shock-value
5 years ago
You can have empathy while still taking the punitive steps that need to be taken on the country as a whole.
5 years ago
You can have empathy while still taking the punitive steps that need to be taken on the country as a whole.
The desired outcome is clear: Russia gets government replaced and war stopped.
The debate is on what steps "need to be taken". I don't take it as gospel that sanctions which will mostly affect non-war-engaging people are one of those steps, yet I am not sure what evidence any sanctions-supporting people have that it really works.
If sanctions negatively impact the Russian economy as a whole, resulting in a long-term reduction in its ability to wage conventional war, then that's a benefit regardless of whether regime change occurs.
Why are you concerned with long-term reduction of Russian war-faring capability? How is that relevant to this situation?
If I believe that would help, I would only be concerned with their immediate reduction of war-faring capability and replacement of their government with a more reasonable one, but none of that seems likely to be achieved with sanctions. And I hope we are not in this for the long run, because I am pretty confident Russian army can keep this up for a number of years.
FWIW, I would hope for the same in regards to all the countries in the world: for their governments to be more reasonable, to do less lying, and to start no wars.
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