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by thr0wawayf00 1563 days ago
Here's the problem though: if you obliterate a country's financial system to the point that people start starving and fundamentally lack their basic needs, what incentive are you giving someone like Putin to not drop a bomb?

If people start starving en masse the way they did back during Soviet Collectivization, which saw 4-7M dead[0], what's stopping Putin from ending it all in retaliation?

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectivization_in_the_Soviet...