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Sure. We don't need incursions. They can stay and be nationalistic all they want.

We need to keep applying pressure until something breaks. There's a constant refrain of "Sanctions don't work. Please stop the sanctions." from the Kremlin.




> Sanctions don't work. Please stop the sanctions.

Examples? All I can see is majority of russians living their life as usual. Sure some transplants in Moscow are sad that their consumarism routine got distracted, but that is it.

As for money frozen in EU, IIRC most of it aren't realted to the goverment and just happened to be in trasit when sanctions started.

Every oligarch knows that Putin is the hand that feeds and biting it at best gets you in prison at worst an express descend to the ground.


In general I don't think sanctions work. They're clearly not working against Russia. EU countries still use tons of Russian gas, they just pay 5X more than they used to because now they have to stick their fingers in the ears and cover their eyes and buy the gas re-routed through India or Azerbaijan at a premium while they pretend they are no longer buying Russian gas. It is quite silly.

but sanctions clearly destroyed Syria.




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