You kill the Russian economy obviously. War is extremely expensive. At the moment a bit under half of all Russian tax dollars are going to it.
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And how would you kill the Russian economy that has been trying with sanctions for 3 years but no one succeeds? This war was to be stopped in 22 in Istanbul when peace was about to be signed. Then Boris Johnson intervened to stop Zelensky. The rest is history. Russia has won. He won. Ukraine at the hands of the British has sent generations of Ukrainians to die for nothing. 🤷♂️
Agreed here. nostr:nprofile1qqsve2jcud7fnjzmchn4gq52wx9agey9uhfukv69dy0v4wpuw4w53nqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujucm0d9hx7uewd9hj7267ev3 why is it right to try to fight back against a government specifically by intentionally crippling its economy still further? Is that not an escalation of aggression, aggression against innocent Russian people? Are there not other means of defense? And who should be defending Ukraine? Certainly not slaves, but that is exactly what Ukrainian government has resorted to, in addition to immense amounts of tax dollars. Taxes, need I remind you, are theft.
Democratic war is an abomination. We should like to be civil and if our government cannot be civil, which it has demonstrated in abundance, why are we even discussing the strategy which they will never do justly or responsibly anyway? What is the fucking point of asking "Pretty please American Empire, kill these innocent people for me so these other innocent ones don't die."
The sanctions aren't very good. Russia still successfully sells lots of oil and gas.
Blowing up the infrastructure that produces and delivers that oil and gas would be much more effective.
And you're dead wrong on "Boris intervening". Russia was offering a "peace" deal that was effectively a total surrender. The only reason they did that was to fool idiots into thinking the war was Ukraine's fault.
The war is not the fault of Ukraine or even of Russia. Guess who unleashed it? The United States of America with Viktoria Nuland that in 2014 unleashed chaos in Kiev bringing to the regime the neo-Nazis piloted by the United States and the European Union
As long as we are talking strategy and consequentialism, why don't you just kill, or threaten to kill so to negotiate a treaty, the leaders in the chain of command? Why waste more resources with hurting Russian people? And Ukrainian soldiers for that matter? Many of whom are draftees of the Ukrainian government, just saying.
I don't think we can destroy russia by destroying its economy. putin will find money, or china will help.
The sad thing is that it is absolutely possible to defeat russia on the battlefield, provided we have the means and the will. unfortunately the entire “civilized” world is falling for russia's bluff.