Re:White House warns of 'extraordinarily elevated' March inf...
by somewhereoutth on Monday April 11, 2022 @04:31PM
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Not to stop the war, but to degrade Russia's ability to prosecute it and any future aggression. We should be doing everything that stays short of the nuclear trigger to destroy Putin's war machine.
Re:White House warns of 'extraordinarily elevated' March inf...
by brimble on Monday April 11, 2022 @05:00PM
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That right there. Sanctions like this are meant to make prosecuting a war more expensive, so make ending the war more appealing, but also to make it harder to recover from e.g. battlefield losses of equipment, and to otherwise make further military buildup slower and more difficult, if the war keeps going for any length of time. In a case like this, they're not just "to stop the war", at least not immediately, even if that would be considered a great outcome. They haven't necessarily failed if they don't bring a swift end to the war, even if that'd be considered ideal.
With regards to President Biden, he will have to be held responsible for applying all out sanctions which have not been able to achieve their objectives. If the goal of the sanctions was to stop the war, that has not happened in last 45 days. We don't know how difficult life has been for the average Joe in Russia from those sanction bites due to the censorship in media in both west and Russia. It certainly has however affected the life of the average Joe here and not for good. But, we are told this is at the expense of our moral victory.