> we won't sanction all Russian nationals
It would be nice to see a mass deportation of Russian mafia.
It would be nice to see a mass deportation of Russian mafia.
Asking for myself.
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a bunch of Ukrainian civilians get killed, their homes destroyed, thousands of refugees, and troops on both sides die and are horribly injured.
No idea if you're connected to the regime, but it would be unfortunate to mess up your life in the west. But there's a tolerable amount of collateral damage. This goes back to hurting yourself to hurt the bad guy, it's not a western ideal to harm the innocent, but we might end up where it happens and we shouldn't be paralyzed by the possibility.
A better solution is to clean up the financial sector, especially the City of London, and to move to renewables ASAP to break the hold of all petrostates on the West.
If you aren’t willing to overthrow the shithole government of Russia, you don’t get to complain when your allegiance (especially when you have dual citizenship and can easily renounce it), makes life hard for you.
Maybe stop trying to punish ordinary people for their (effectively unelected - see how opposition in Russia can't survive) government?
1) Russians can own firearms. They can start a rebellion to overthrow the gov. Why haven’t they? There’s some level of comfort the residents are getting that they don’t want to give up.
2) Punishing residents for their govs misdeeds (it is listed as a democracy after all) is a good way to get them to comply and overthrow or vote out this gov.
People in the US pay everyday for Russian misinformation campaigns, while Russian residents sit by and do nothing. What’s that saying from BLM? If you do nothing you’re just as guilty?
So yes, if you maintain citizenship with Russia, there ought to be consequences.