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by leesalminen 1038 days ago
> Anyway, and sadly, the sanctions affect "regular" people like me the most. The ruling elite? Not at all.

This confirms my secondhand knowledge of financial sanctions. It seems to universally be this way and makes me wonder why we still tout them as if they were effective. They sure don’t seem to be.
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actionfromafar 1038 days ago
That’s a very broad statement, almost automatically untrue. All countries, all situations, all financial sanctions?
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pessimizer 1038 days ago
It obviously isn't too broad, because instead of this comment you could have posted a single counterexample to disprove it.
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actionfromafar 1038 days ago
The onus isn’t really on me, I’m not the one making blanket statements.
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GoToRO 1038 days ago
The idea is that "the many", the poor, will overthrown the elite.
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allarm 1038 days ago
Because they have limited access to the Internet? That’s just silly.
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GoToRO 1038 days ago
and many other things
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allarm 1037 days ago
Like, what things? I'm a citizen of a heavily sanctioned country, even though I haven't lived there for years. If anything, sanctions only affect people in such a way that they hate the countries that imposed the sanctions on their country, but not their own government. That's a very naive point of view.
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GoToRO 1037 days ago
Like we saw recentlly with Russia, the people were not upset when they invaded Ukraine. Then when McDonald's pulled out of Russia a fat guy chained itself to the doors. So internet, fast-food, clothes, cars, movies... water pumps... and so on.
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allarm 1037 days ago
> the people were not upset

False. There's a lot (the majority) of people from my close circle who were and are "upset", if I can put it this way. I don't have the statistics, but let's say that's 80/20 ratio (supporters/non-supporters), even though I personally believe it's closer to 50/50.

> fast-food, clothes

So you really think that limited access to the Internet and the fact that McDonalds is gone would force these 20% to get on the streets and fight against the heavily armed government forces AND the rest 80% of the country population? I mean, among the other reasons that come to mind, sanctions (movies, cars, clothes - what??) are somewhere at the very bottom of my list, if matter at all.

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