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Re:Ukraine Government email to ICANN (requesting shutdown of... by gruez on Monday February 28, 2022 @11:59PM (#30509829)
>The point of sanctions is to be detrimental to average citizens (aka voters) so that they can put pressure on Putin.

This presumes fair and open elections

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Re:Ukraine Government email to ICANN (requesting shutdown of... by ruined on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @12:04AM (#30509863)
no, it presumes power exists by the grace of popular support, or at least a lack of motivated opposition. this often coincides with but is by no means restricted to elections.
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Re:Ukraine Government email to ICANN (requesting shutdown of... by daxuak on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @12:30AM (#30510018)
> the grace of popular support

For people to deprive the government of the popular support however, they have to vote with their life and everything. Look at Hong Kong. Look at Arab Spring. Look at Tiananmen Massacre. (They all ended up in vain, too.)

It's not some kind of natural process that will just happen.

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