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Originally Posted by Rutuu
Why lift sanctions ever for the Putin regime? Every commodity can be produced somewhere else and supply chains can reform. There's more of an argument to ratchet up sanctions.
You're negotiating with someone without reciprocity.
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Two reasons really:
1) There is a significant humanitarian cost to sanctions. Both millions of Russians who are directly affected and potentially billions of people in developing nations who are going to have reduced access to food and fuel because of rising prices.
2) If there is no plausible off ramp, then Russia's incentive is to inflict maximum damage, since there are unlikely to be additional consequences that result from that. The safest way for this to end is for Russian leadership to be convinced that deescalation is less costly than continuing the war. If the sanctions will never be lifted, then there is basically no cost to continuing the war and they will get increasingly desperate and dangerous.