Everyday Russians, including scientists, should feel consequences for their government's murders.
Except for the ISS (complicated, as noted), I'm astounded that anything goes in or out of Russia: people, goods, services, atoms, electrons.
Except for the ISS (complicated, as noted), I'm astounded that anything goes in or out of Russia: people, goods, services, atoms, electrons.
This situation is acute, and will spread.
The only way Germany was stopped in 1945 was by a collective decision to defeat them militarily, by multiple participating countries.
That won't happen this time around, because WWIII is all but unthinkable.
The only thing left is for Russian citizens to be motivated enough to stop it. That's a hard lift, but if they feel it long enough, they might get it.
In any case, after arming Ukraine, it's about all we have.
At the same time, I wouldn't want random Russian citizens to have to feel the consequences for things their government has done.
Your bad argument is the same one that spurs Islamic terrorists into stabbing random people.
I am afraid we are about to vote in a government that will do even more harm -- including to me personally. I think that a lot of people are choosing that harm deliberately. But even worse is a lot of people who are willing to accept that harm to me but without feeling any responsibility at all.
The world is difficult. We make hard choices to live together. We do our best, or at least most of us do. I wish there were more empathy, and I accept that this means I feel guilt.
The Russians are not really a democracy and their understanding of the world is severely warped by their media. And even those more clear on the situation can do only a little. But the more they individually feel a responsibility, the sooner they can collectively do something.
I'm not especially interested in false equivocation as an argument. It's cheap and boring.
We'll have to at least pay for the track maintenance and electricity usage caused by that, so why should we listen to a country that isn't affected? BTW the next best option would be to send war ships to the red sea and put the shipping corridor under effectively European control, would that be preferred?