If you keep breaking the site guidelines like this, we're going to have to ban you. I realize the current situation is highly charged, but you have a history of doing this on HN since long before this war, and we've had to warn you many times. It wasn't ok then, and it's not ok now. Difficult circumstances do not make it ok to burn this place down.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29523580 (Dec 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28090599 (Aug 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26537314 (March 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21309680 (Oct 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20900584 (Sept 2019)

Edit: Just so you know, I posted this before I saw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30812090 and was not intending to pile on.

Ultimately, the only legitimate way to remove Putin is for its people to evict him, either through election or protestation. There are only so many ways to increase the pressure at the international level that won't impact the lives of the casual citizen of Russia.

Protestations would be simply drowned in blood. See how Ukraine is doing against Putin's machine - and they have weapons, Javelins, Bayraktars, tanks, and big support of the West, including asylum for non-combatants.

Would EU countries give refuge to families of Russian people fighting the government,or fleeing the coming purges? No, they'll better cut off Russians from the Internet [1].

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/5/22962822/internet-backbone...