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Originally Posted by OneHungLo
They've arrested thousands of Russians for protesting. This is Putin's war that even the soldiers don't want to fight. And the sanctions they're having levied against them from pretty much the entire westernized world are going to decimate their economy.
The last thing they need is private businesses hunting down Russian civilians (who probably oppose the war more than you do) and trying to kill off their business.
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You are 100% right about it. The problem is that Western sanctions against regular citizens will work counterproductively. I'm not talking about personal sanctions against Putin's oligarchs, Putin's mobsters and Putin himself (regular Russians support these sanctions).
But when you apply sanctions to all the Russian citizens just because they are Russians (which is a pure Nazism actually), you just increase support of Putin here. They people got told: "Look what American and the EU governments did to you! That's because they hate all Russians! They are Nazis and we must unite with Putin to wight Western enemies".
If you didn't know that, I'm as a Russian telling you how it works in my country...