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Originally Posted by surferguy
Regarding the sanctions - perhaps some smarter people here can help me through this line of thought. How does the punishment play out long term?
Russia is getting severely penalized at the moment and I suppose a number of scenarios can play out to end this war. So let’s fast forward to the end of the war part. When do sanctions lift and how do you go about that part? I mean if it’s not done correctly are we just doomed to another round of generational hate to the west inside Russias borders? Perhaps that is just a given now that outside news seems to be cutoff and the government propaganda machine goes to work.
I don’t think I’m articulating my question/thoughts very well here but perhaps others can jump in to further elaborate on the thought process.
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Definitely no smarter than you, but I think your questions are exactly what is so crazy/terrifying about this situation: there is no exit strategy. Unpredictable positive events could occur - Putin is assassinated, military coup in Russia - but without an unpredictable change to the status quo, there are so many other horrible possible outcomes that it's hard to wrap my head around them all.