Putin is Russia

**Lucavi** · 2022-02-24 13:14

I mean, can you blame them? Nobody stopped Putin, and we all knew that Russia was going to be their template.

**Rhyis.** · 2022-02-24 13:21

Originally Posted by Cail

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1496909605506588673

war is bad... but we also knew it was coming and moved the Canadian embassy from Kyiv a month ago in anticipation of the invasion, showing we have no intention of being involved

**6souls** · 2022-02-24 13:31

https://twitter.com/dwnews/status/1496913314818904077
https://twitter.com/EJ_Burrows/statu...79550667669507
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1496891947146878998

**Cail** · 2022-02-24 13:32

https://twitter.com/Conflicts/status...15815437905924

**6souls** · 2022-02-24 13:33

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1496915370724184078

More residential areas getting shelled

**Mertron** · 2022-02-24 13:40

https://twitter.com/matthewesp/statu...866470922?s=21

**Cail** · 2022-02-24 13:44

Biden speaking

**Andalusian girls** · 2022-02-24 13:45

that's generous

**Day** · 2022-02-24 13:45

lol

**Day** · 2022-02-24 13:47

does someone like putin even bat an eye at sanctions

**Xno Kappa** · 2022-02-24 13:47

Originally Posted by Mertron

https://twitter.com/matthewesp/statu...866470922?s=21

Yikes. Looks like they're still using modified dash-1's from the 90s.

**Lucavi** · 2022-02-24 13:49

Originally Posted by Day

does someone like putin even bat an eye at sanctions

Not if he can seize Ukraine's energy and sell it to the rest of Europe.

**Krandor** · 2022-02-24 13:50

Originally Posted by Day

does someone like putin even bat an eye at sanctions

Sanctions affect the poors, not his problem

**Day** · 2022-02-24 13:51

seems like an unfortunate strategy then

**Andalusian girls** · 2022-02-24 13:54

it depends on the severity of the sanctions. Russia is an export-based economy and to actually cut them out of the world economy entirely would send their nation spiraling down into a Mad Max failed state. as that is not truly feasible, seizing the entirety of their foreign assets (including those owned by the oligarchs surrounding Putin), preventing their ability to raise capital in foreign markets, and cutting them out of the SWIFT international payment network (this is ultimately what broke Iran's intransigence and brought them to a nuclear deal) would almost assuredly be enough to trigger a depression and cause severe domestic unrest both among the general populace and the elite.

but, Russia's biggest trading partners are former Soviet Republics that do not care, and the EU. as of now Germany and Italy are the primary impediments preventing the SWIFT expulsion as they rely on Russia's natural energy resources to keep the lights on. so long as that is the case all sanctions will remain partial, and so partially effective.