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by spaceman_2020
1386 days ago
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The problem is that a contracting economy doesn’t faze ordinary Russians outside of Moscow and St Petersburg all that much. They were already poor. They’ll get a little poorer. But they’ll have enough to eat and enough to heat their homes. And they’ll still believe that Russian pride is intact, and that’s all that matters. The entire sanctions approach fails so spectacularly because the capitalist Western ideology sees everything in terms of money and wealth. Outside of the west, most people will happily suffer if they believe that their pride and identity is being protected. This is something Americans just don’t understand at all. |
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