[ensan]

Who do you think you are calling people struggling to get by to wake up from their “comfy lethargy” and “actually protest”?

People don’t protest when they’re struggling to make ends meet and civil institutions are weakened.

The only effect of the inhumane economic sanctions has been tightening the ruling class’s grip. They did not work in Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, not even Syria. They have however caused enormous human suffering.

[yazaddaruvala]

I also don’t like that the Russian people have to deal with the consequences of Putin’s delusions, but I can’t think of another option for governments and companies like Namecheap.

That said, I think you’re very wrong about this: “ People don’t protest when they’re struggling to make ends meet and civil institutions are weakened.”

I believe most revolutions are a result of “struggling to make ends meet”.

e.g. First example I could think of extreme struggle leading to revolution https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution, another more relevant example where extreme struggle led to revolution https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution, and history has a lot more (the US from the UK, India from the UK, the UK from the UK - i.e. the Magna Carta). Meanwhile, sadly history has almost zero revolutions where the population wasn’t suffering.

I’ll say again tho. This is me pointing out examples from history. I don’t like or enjoy that the world works the way it works.