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Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination by jollybean on Monday February 28, 2022 @10:47PM (#30509207)
"Do you have any prior evidence that sanctions have led to protests/riots that have successfully overthrown a regime?"

Yes, the Soviet Union.

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Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination by necovek on Monday February 28, 2022 @10:58PM (#30509311)
I don't see any mention of economic sanctions at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Unio..., care to elaborate?
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Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination by jollybean on Monday February 28, 2022 @11:17PM (#30509484)
The 'Iron Curtain' was a giant set of sanctions. Limited mobility, trade, finances, goods, services, information.
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Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination by jollybean on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @08:11AM (#30526923)
I'll double down: the Soviet Union represented 'sanctions' considerably worse than exist today.

So much so, that there wasn't much trade to sanction.

We have integrated economies now, there's a lot to directly sanction, we didn't back then.

Where was IKEA, Toyota, Nike, Apple, Intel etc. and their 1970's peers doing in Russia?

They were not. There just wasn't brand commercial integration. Same thing for information, services, travel, finance etc..

We'd have to shut down most of our trade now to reach the level of de-facto 'sanction' of the Soviet Union.

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