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Showing support for Ukraine is good, but blocking Russian visitors can only help Putin make ordinary Russians - which jad no say in his war policies - feel under siege, which is exactly what Putin wants.

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It doesn’t matter it’s a dictatorship they are powerless.

How many dictators fell over the last few centuries?

dozens?maybe hundreds?

Putin will fall at some point, just like everyone before him, he's not a god, it's not a matter of if it's a matter of when.

Yeah, but stop pretending that the Russian people have any sort of influence at the moment.

I believe (hope) they will have influence at some point, but it’s definitely not going to be because someone made a Javascript plugin on Github to block Russians.

Of corse they do. They do not operate in vacuum. If 10k Russian soldiers die and their mothers would go to street, what would Putin do? Beat them up? They may not have a man power to arrest all of them and place to put. This may cause some people in places like Dagestan to revolt. Workers in a tank factories could go to strike.

Putin and buddies to have to calculate that risk. It may cause a cease fire.

Stalin lived a long life and died the tyrant of Russia, same with Lenin, and Peter the Great

Stalin might have lived longer if people weren’t too terrified to check on him after a night of drinking.

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