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Re:Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends by usrusr on Saturday March 05, 2022 @03:17PM (#30571459)
Life isn't good under an incompetent government that doesn't care for its citizens, simple as that. It's not the responsibility of US, EU or anyone else to lessen that pain. Putin could have easily avoided the sanctions, he didn't. Avoiding the sanctions would not have required any particular skill or qualification. If instead of Putin a dog were president, the sanctions would not have happened. Bad luck for those who don't have a better government.
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Re:Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends by lowkey on Saturday March 05, 2022 @06:23PM (#30573032)
Why do you conflate Putin with the Russian people?

Sanctioning oil and gas would end a direct war subsidy to Putin. Broad sanctions against the people of Russia don’t do nearly as much to stop the war as simply not buying petroleum-chemicals to fund Putin’s war chest.

The Russian people are no more to blame here than Republicans who voted for George W Bush before he waged a war of aggression and killed 500k Iraqis based on a lie about WMD.

In fact, the Russian people are less responsible than those Republicans since the US is supposed to be a democracy and Americans still have fair elections to vote unpopular candidates out.

The only crime of the Russian people is the accident of being born inside her arbitrary borders.

We should stop dehumanizing and punishing an entire population for the unconscionable actions of their authoritarian leader.

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