Quote (Vastet @ Feb 28 2022 07:48pm)

Sanctions are a great way to make sure the target of sanctions doubles down on whatever they were sanctioned over. They do occasionally work, but never against an economic or military power of significance. Whenever deployed against such a nation, it hurts the sanctioner as much as the sanctionee, and everyone in a position of leadership in a nation knows it. It's a way to mollify the masses. To pretend to punish an adversary without having to risk lives so the people stop or simply never start demanding military action.

Quote (meWW @ 28 Feb 2022 15:28)

Sanctions aren't useless when they literally isolates and destroy the target.
Putins war crimes costs him around 15 billion per day. Money Putin can't afford. Soon Russia will go from being a second world country to a third world dump

Quote (Vastet @ Feb 28 2022 09:37pm)

If wishes were fishes...

Quote (meWW @ 28 Feb 2022 15:51)

When you wake up dreams are no longer reality and you will have to face it, eventually.

Quote (Vastet @ Feb 28 2022 09:58pm)

That cuts both ways.

Quote (meWW @ 28 Feb 2022 16:12)

Remember Putin did this to Russia and Ukraine. :)

Quote (Vastet @ Feb 28 2022 04:13pm)

Remember the US forced its hand. ;)

Quote (penguinhero @ 28 Feb 2022 16:16)

<insert bike fall meme>

“Look what the US made me do”