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by rhn_mk1
1482 days ago
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> The aim of the sanctions is not regime change, but the degradation of the Russian military's ability to wage war. This is addressed directly in the article: > There are many plausible reasons one might inflict economic harm on an opposing country: [...]. Or they might be kept in place to degrade the Russian economy over the long term, thus frustrating Russian attempts to modernize their military in the decades to come. [...] It is not clear to me which, if any, of these rationales motivate our current sanctions regime. You write: > I think there is a still a lot of room to investigate how much the strategic bombings affected the targets ability to deploy it's forces and the article places some breadcrumbs about that too: > the collapse imagined by the early air theorists of the ‘30s was possible if the indiscriminate carpet bombing of World War II were replaced by surgical, precision strikes on enemy |
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