The window opportunity of protesting in the streets has been closed. Who "wins" the war now will not change the fact that Ukraine will be rebuilt with your money. The bill is huge yet and keeps growing each day.
Many young Russians are quitting the country. Probably the safest solution now that your president has going so mentally unstable as to equal a maternity full of women and newborn with a nazis den.
Russia can just aim for a pyrrhic victory. Then will suffer a hard recession and faces a very bleak future.
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Since we have an actual Russian in the thread, it would be interesting to have some light shed on this.
One analysis I keep hearing is that economic collapse means that they will inevitably submit to western liberal democracy because living in a stone age economy with no proverbial coke or blue jeans is just too intolerable for people.
The other analysis is that most Russians live quite independently of the economy, have never heard of any American chimpanzees delivering mail, have no interest in any western luxuries, and are happy as long as they can hear soothing messages from the state media about their greatness, and get drunk off the gourd on cheap vodka (which will practically be free if nobody buys Russian grain anymore).
If the former is true, obviously pile on as many sanctions as possible. But if the latter is true, sanctions could make Russia less likely to change, not more. You'd want to get more people hooked on western goods, services and culture. I'm sure both groups of people exist concurrently, since Russia is anything but homogenous. But without actually living on the inside for a long time it's hard to tell which way the bias leans. And then there's the question of how strong the bias would need to be to justify one course of actions over the other.
> economic collapse means that they will inevitably submit to western liberal democracy
Not, economic collapse means that Russia will became a serf from China.
Coca cola, blue jeans and jewels are easily replaceable; Russia not having anymore Intel CPUs, or Taiwanese chips for fixing computers, or even neon gas required to make their own chips will not be so funny.
And by Computers I mean all that is basically a computer now: cars, trains, machine, TV, phones, appliances... the "stone age" one is a good metaphor. Everything can be smuggled, is just more expensive, but "Smart" products can easily be redesigned to refuse to work inside Russian frontiers, for example.
Of course Russia could buy (almost) everything from China instead, paying with raw materials or asking China to buy all things in their name (Many African countries are doing exactly that now), but then China will write the price. Russia will not have much leverage to negotiate in that position.
Many young Russians are quitting the country. Probably the safest solution now that your president has going so mentally unstable as to equal a maternity full of women and newborn with a nazis den.
Russia can just aim for a pyrrhic victory. Then will suffer a hard recession and faces a very bleak future.
You have a bigger problem that Mailchimp access. If you can, quit the country.