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  While I too hate Putin, not everyone does. Channel 5 ( All Gas No Brakes guy ) really opened my eyes to the amount of people that are idiotic enough to support this dickhole Putin.
  I almost hate his supporters more than Putin himself because they don’t even know WHY they support him.
context: Those sanctions need to really sink their teeth in and start gnawing.  This all needs to end. >
  
  There's a good chance it's a lot worse than it seems due to their tight monetary control. There are millions of workers that aren't getting paid on time, wages nowhere near keeping up with prices, and russians didn't generally have much room in their economy to begin with, and there's many reports of millions struggling to put food on the table. >
  
  so like, when do people go postal? >
  
  When the vodka and bread runs out >
  
  Bread won't run out because they literally stole most of Ukraine's wheat harvest. But vodka.... that could cause problems. >
  
  You don't think the state sold it all to try to get more war material? >
  
  You can tell by all the mysterious deaths. >
  
  The impacts? >
  
  When they hit the ground after falling out of a Window, those impacts you mean? >
  
  /r/YourJokeButWorse >
  
  It's really no surprise that sanctions are starting to have an impact on Russia's economy. This shows that economic sanctions are an effective way to make a statement and bring attention to a situation. It's a shame that Russia is feeling the impact of these sanctions, but it's important to remember the reason why these sanctions were put in place. >
  
  Nah. Sanctions are like a slow working poison. At first nothing is felt, and when you start thinking everything is OK, the bite is being felt.
  By the time it really starts to hurt, it's nearly too late and almost irreversible.
  Sanctions take a lot of time, but are very effective some time in, especially on a country that relies on raw exports and has to import almost anything else, including expertise. >
  
  You clearly didn’t read my article. It’s not that sanctions are a slow working poison. It is that Russia has prepared for this contingency and is able to withstand it in the short term. >
  
  That’s almost exactly what he said to you. The short term is coming to an end. >
  
  Again, read my article. It’s from fucking NPR, this isn’t like I’m posting a celebratory article from the Russian state media.
  Sanctions WERE SUPPOSED to have an immediate affect by crippling Russia’s GDP and leading to rampant inflation. The Russian economy has resisted the immediate expected and planned effects of the sanctions. So while there will be long term effects, the sanctions were put in place because they were SUPPOSED to have immediate effects. They have failed to do so.
  I know that it’s inconvenient and uncomfortable to hear this news, but refusing to face the truth isn’t going to help anything. >
  
  
  Sanctions WERE SUPPOSED to have an immediate affect by crippling Russia’s GDP and leading to rampant inflation
  
  According to who?
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  Sanctions work slowly, always have, always will. Long term effects are what are expected, short term effects are merely a bonus.
  Russia has well filled coffers, enough to prop up the Ruble for a while. As for inflation, russia has enough raw materials and food production to keep the country going for a while. As for anything that needs to be imported, scarcity will lead to price hikes, but for the population, those are mostly luxury goods (iphones, etc), for the industry however, irreplacable and hard to obtain.
  But the primary reason is to thwart Russia's advanced weapons production, long term. And it seems it's working.
  Again, no one expects sanctions to have an immediate effect, especially when the receiving end deploys countermeasures, like manipulation of the Rouble, halting stock trade etc, which is what's going on, but these efforts cost money and Russia won't be able to do this forever. >
  
  According to all of the parties that imposed the sanctions as well as their various advisors, lol. Primarily the US and the US Treasury. Seriously, not only did I link a completely unbiased article, but it even has links and sources. Again, at least PRETEND to consider the situation instead of blindly parading around and avoiding any inconvenient news. >
  
  You keep circling back to that fact the link you posted was from NPR instead of attempting to understand that sanctions work slowly, not immediately. >
  
  How long till the small folk rise up or the oligarchy supplies money for a war within Russia? >
  
  The russian populace has for centuries led a very downtrodden life, and are used to being oppressed, it's literally their way of life, only St. Petersburg and Moscow are more privileged, and Putin does all he can to keep them content, but if we see large scale protests in those 2, it's game over for Putin. >
  
  Russian history is unlike any other developed country. It's fascinating how much violence, and misery the working class/serfs/people/comrades have endured for generations. The expectation of the ruling class to respond with brutal oppression is pretty much in the DNA of the people. Russia never had a renaissance, it was pulled out of it's feudalism slooooowly and this was only started by Peter the Great. I've read about how peasants/lower class people formed clubs focused around withstanding pain/torture should you get arrested by a noble and sentenced to knouting...(I don't know how true this is but wow). The Russian ethos is pretty dark. I've had the honor of working with a lot of people of Russian diaspora that came to America after winning the green card lottery and after fall of communism. Don't mess with their tea, or their tea breaks. >
  
  Russia is kind of where history comes to take a crap. >
  
  Everyone hates Putin.
  No matter who wins or loses, Russia has lost all credibility with the rest of the world. 
  The only way to fix this would be for the Russians to get rid of Putin. 
  And they're not gonna do it until things get really uncomfortable for Russians.
  Anything that will make Russians more uncomfortable is good.