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I don&#x27;t really understand what the endgame of the sanctions and various actions are here.<p>The idea that the populace will rise up seems like a super high risk maneuver - it&#x27;s like going all in. Like let&#x27;s say it&#x27;s X% Putin isn&#x27;t in power next year. What happens in the other 100-X% case now they have nothing left to lose?<p>Is the idea that we just say &quot;right, that&#x27;s it, Russia is isolated forever now&quot; and there we are? e.g. &quot;we&quot; showed that trade doesn&#x27;t work, so instead we go for a kind of indefinite containment strategy?<p>It just feels like a really stupid path to go down in my view because once you eliminate interdependence via trade you&#x27;ve now removed another barrier to Russia just deciding to take another country.<p>Sure, NATO, MAD and all of that - but all of that was already there anyway.<p>Once you get to the point at which the Russian state sees loss of their own territory as being a declaration of war, I don&#x27;t see anything other than full blown WW3 being on the table. If anyone tries to reclaim Crimea, the Donbass, or in a few weeks maybe other parts of Ukraine-now-Russia by force, SHTF.<p>I feel like all of this is getting lost in accusations of propaganda or being on the right side of history or whatever else. There seems to be no realistic climbdown being presented, if Russia fully pull out tomorrow, what do they get back and when?<p>Are governments even in control of this any more or has Moloch taken it and gone for a run?