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[-] Photonic@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago

Our sanctions and the self-sanctioning by companies themselves are draining Russia’s economy and thus draining the Kremlin’s war machine.

Ursula von der Leyen, 2022

This sounds like more of the same.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago

WTF? Sanctions have absolutely been part of reaching the point we're at now.
Other comments by you have been misguided, but this is way way out there.

[-] TheBlackLounge@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 hours ago

How long do you think draining a country's economy takes?

[-] andxz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

It's an enormous country with an abundance of natural resources. It was always going to take a fair amount of time before they got desperate. Now they are, and it's not going well, hence the endless missile and drone barrage.

They lost their momentum on the ground a while back, and now they're reduced to holding what they can and hope they can break the Ukrainian morale with civilian casualties. There's nothing new there. They're using the same tactics they used in Chechnya all over again. The only difference is the weaponry used.

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