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The west is coming to terms with the fact that they're not gonna get a regime change in Russia. (www.bloomberg.com)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (7 children)

confounding expectations that the pressure of international sanctions and deepening isolation would eventually turn them against him

Literally when have sanctions ever worked? I imagine there might be some exception to the rule, but how in the fuck did this "expectation" come to develop? At this point, the belief in sanctions is more a religious dogma than actual strategy.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

TBF sanctions have worked really well against Cuba, Venezuela, DPRK just to name a few. Smaller and isolated economies which have not fully industrialized can artificially be set back decades via sanctions, and while those nations still exist, we can't pretend it hasn't been an immense struggle for them which is almost entirely due to the sanctions. The US thought their war strategies against the Taliban and ISIS would work against Russia and they thought their economic attacks would work the same - not realizing in both instances that Russia isn't a literal or figurative island with a fragile economy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

They also work well for countries that are clients states i.e apartheid South Africa

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