Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "@INSIDERUSSIA - US Secondary Sanctions Hit Russian Economy Hard and May Affect Military Production" video.

@silvernoob1603 : If you had the first clue of how ignorant your statements are, you would be too ashamed to write them.
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Imagine how it would feel to be in his shoes, having to speak of your own country in this way? But also knowing the potential consequences that could be met out upon you, like so many Russian exiles of this and the last century? It must be very painful, heart breaking even. I admire his honesty and courage.
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Indeed, it is right that Russians will have to feel the pain of their own responsibility. There has been a tradition of political and moral absenteeism in Russia for far too long. It is as though there has been a measure of pain doled out into the world, and that finite measure has gone to the wrong places, so that one can envisage lifting it from Ukraine and putting it back where it belongs in Russia.
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Fascinating insights. They jibe well with everything I have learned over a longish life so far, from an interested outsider’s perspective. Thank you.
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@andreasferenczi7613 : As with so many things in Russia, they dangle on the precipice for so long that everyone starts to forget it’s a thing, until it suddenly happens. If he has been saying that for two years, he was not wrong. After all, he will have known that the US had these kinds of sanctions lined up for a long time, but been unable to predict the day they would drop. The end for Putin will occur in a similar manner, after long expectation and all but forgotten predictions, it will suddenly happen out of an apparently clear blue sky.
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