Comments by "Philip B" (@philipb2134) on "Biden imposes 500 new sanctions against Russia" video.

  1. Sanctions can, and often do, directly hurt "bad actors". That said, indirect pressure is not absence of severe pressure.
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  2. You are not an economics grad, are you?
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  3. ​ @dankielab even before the Special Brutality Operation, there must have been some minds within top military Staff which suspected an error. Dictatorship is not friendly toward uncomfortable analysis.
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  4.  @sudeeptaghosh  Est. a third of Russia"s civil aviation fleet is grounded because they can't get parts and spares. Russia has had to buy large quantities of consumer goods such as microwave ovens through third parties just to get the embedded microchips. The sanctions are not painless.
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  5.  @sudeeptaghosh  David Ricardo.
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  6.  @Tony-x8z1n  .. and Santa brings nice presents to all good children. Wouldn't you feel better if instead you told the truth?
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  7. Russian oligarchs have found their offshore bank accounts frozen, their super yachts impounded, their Belgravia flats seized. More than likely this was not pleasant to them.
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