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Do western powers truly expect sanctions to work against Russia? North Korea, Cuba and Iran have been under sanctions for decades and nothing has changed. how will it be any different with Russia?
Sanctions on Russia sends a message to China that their markets would dry up if they should to try to snatch Taiwan by way of the People's Liberation Army.
Do you suppose Russians are going to accept living like North Koreans or Cubans? I don't. Putin is trying to get there, but the government in Russia is nowhere near as advanced in controlling the spread of information and policing thought as in those nations. Russians have had a taste of modern European life and they will rise up if it gets taken away.
Do you suppose Russians are going to accept living like North Koreans or Cubans? I don't. Putin is trying to get there, but the government in Russia is nowhere near as advanced in controlling the spread of information and policing thought as in those nations. Russians have had a taste of modern European life and they will rise up if it gets taken away.
My concern is that Russia is cutting off basically all outside sources of information and will use their state propaganda to put forth the message that the west is evil and intent on invading them and that the Russians need to take one for the team. It will become an echo box just like in North Korea.
so concerned you started a new profile to post this? Is this diddlydudette by chance?
the world decided 50+ years ago that if NK, Cuba and their ilk wanted to live under a completely authoritarian regime that didn't "bother" other countries that the world wouldn't do anything about it
My concern is that Russia is cutting off basically all outside sources of information and will use their state propaganda to put forth the message that the west is evil and intent on invading them and that the Russians need to take one for the team. It will become an echo box just like in North Korea.
Putin is trying. On the other hand, there are thousands and thousands of Russians outside the country. They have other relatives around the globe. The oligarchs have been living the high life overseas. Everybody under 40, at least, has a cell phone and most of them know how to get around the censorship. Putin spent 30 years building business ties with the west (and blew it all in a week) and those ties are still there if temporarily severed. I doubt the business leaders give a damn about Putin's desire to erase Ukrainian nationality. I'm hopeful that Putin will come under severe pressure from the exclusion of his country from participation in the world that he will find a way to back out the mess he got himself in.
Then, of course, will it be business as usual? There is going to be a concerted effort to eliminate dependence on Russian energy in Europe after this. Some of what are sanctions now will become de facto practices. The longer Putin drags this out, the more of that we will see.
Sanctions on Russia sends a message to China that their markets would dry up if they should to try to snatch Taiwan by way of the People's Liberation Army.
LOL. You think the markets in bed with China will shoot themselves in the foot for Taiwan? China will make every Hollywood actor apologize in Mandarin and Walt Disney and Apple would make documentaries in how great China is.
Sanctions won’t work. China is the world’s manufacturer. Russia has massive reserves of natural resources.
What we are witnessing is the death of the American empire.
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China will make every Hollywood actor apologize in Mandarin and Walt Disney and Apple would make documentaries in how great China is.
