• Montagge
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    6 months ago

    I thought the sanctions weren’t doing anything and Russia’s economy is booming

    • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netM
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      While sanctions have either failed to achieve the intended effect or in some cases have had the opposite effect on the industrial economy of Russia, its warfighting capacity, its ruling class, and its GDP; they have had negative effects on consumer prices in Russia just as they have in the US and EU.

      Sanctions, as always, are a form of economic warfare against the citizenry of both the sanctioned nation and your own. The intention is to create significant instability and resentment among the working class with the goal of fomenting political unrest in the target nation.

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        6 months ago

        And that’s why Russia has about 120 billionaires