Comments by "seneca983" (@seneca983) on "RUSSIA VS SANCTIONS: how they affect regular Russians" video.

  1. I'm really sorry for your plight. It pains me to say it but I think I'm still in favor of the sanctions, at least as long as this war is still raging. While I don't think Ukraine is totally innocent, a full-scale invasion cannot be justifies IMHO and it has to be combated somehow. However, NATO probably won't dare to send troops to actually clash with Russian troops in Ukraine so the only option seems to be maximally tough sanctions. As an interesting philosophical question, I wonder whether sanctions or sending troops into combat in Ukraine would be morally better (if we ignore the risk of nuclear war in the latter case). If troops are sent into Ukraine then some of the Russian troops facing them will be getting killed or maimed which is a pretty severe result, but the number of people in the harm's way represent a very small portion of the total Russian population. Sanctions, on the other hand, don't kill (most) of the people they affect but on the other hand they can make life quite difficult for large swathes of the Russian population. Which is one is the gentler measure, some people killed/maimed or many more rendered destitute?
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