[molodec]

It is not that simple. They are on their families side. Not complying will put them to prison for 15 years https://news.yahoo.com/russia-blocks-twitter-and-facebook-as...

[jrumbut]

But complying means that their descendents will continue to experience that injustice and worse.

Not it's simple or I always do the right thing, but there is a right thing to do.

[david12345]

Which is why you are on your marry way to volunteer in the Ukrainian army right now...right? Or that standard of bravery only applies to Russians?

[rectang]

It's hard, even heroic to confront the state. But the first thing is not to be one of these folks:

https://www.cnn.com/videos/media/2022/03/04/russia-media-ukr...

If it were possible to target sanctions directly at the war's cheerleaders, that would be great. It's not, and so sanctions harm Russians in the aggregate in the hopes of bringing down support in the aggregate.