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> What exactly does locking out OP from his mailing lists achieve? Leave behind an economic scorched earth to hopefully deter future wannabe warmongerers from

> What exactly does locking out OP from his mailing lists achieve? Leave behind an economic scorched earth to hopefully deter future wannabe warmongerers from deciding to war monger. Sorry for OP but tbh, his pain is nothing compared to literally dying as many Ukrainians are right now.

unmole 5y ago
> Leave behind an economic scorched earth to hopefully deter future wannabe warmongerers from deciding to war monger. Right, because it's small tech blogs that are the backbone of the Russian economy, not its state owned energy companies which still continue to sell to Europe. > literally dying as many Ukrainians are right now I mean sure, it's great perfomative activism but how exactly does cancelling OP helps them?
- hnov 5y ago
  It’s astounding isn’t it? Technically Russia isn’t all that dependent on gas exports to Europe for its income but it does seem that Europe is very dependent on Russian gas. Meanwhile the peanut gallery is applauding meaningless gestures like this.
  - ZeroGravitas 5y ago
    This is becoming a meme, like that "Nothing bad can happen to the UK because of Brexit, because Germans like British cars" thing that people repeated for no obvious reason. The EU has quite detailed and widespread plans to fuck up the Russian economy on a near permanent basis. They'd basically already done so by taking climate change seriously while Putin tried to pretend it wasn't happening, now they're hitting fast-forward on that plan and specifically targeting Russian carbon first. Russian coal and oil is the easy bit to do and it hurts Russia more, so they're doing that first. It's like shouting at someone with a sniper rifle, "why don't you come out and fight me like a man?". Because it would be strategically unwise and totally unnecessary in order to beat you, is one potential answer.

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> What exactly does locking out OP from his mailing lists achieve? Leave behind an economic scorched earth to hopefully deter future wannabe warmongerers from

by axiosgunnar 5y ago

unmole 5y ago
> Leave behind an economic scorched earth to hopefully deter future wannabe warmongerers from deciding to war monger. Right, because it's small tech blogs that are the backbone of the Russian economy, not its state owned energy companies which still continue to sell to Europe. > literally dying as many Ukrainians are right now I mean sure, it's great perfomative activism but how exactly does cancelling OP helps them?
- hnov 5y ago
  It’s astounding isn’t it? Technically Russia isn’t all that dependent on gas exports to Europe for its income but it does seem that Europe is very dependent on Russian gas. Meanwhile the peanut gallery is applauding meaningless gestures like this.
  - ZeroGravitas 5y ago
    This is becoming a meme, like that "Nothing bad can happen to the UK because of Brexit, because Germans like British cars" thing that people repeated for no obvious reason. The EU has quite detailed and widespread plans to fuck up the Russian economy on a near permanent basis. They'd basically already done so by taking climate change seriously while Putin tried to pretend it wasn't happening, now they're hitting fast-forward on that plan and specifically targeting Russian carbon first. Russian coal and oil is the easy bit to do and it hurts Russia more, so they're doing that first. It's like shouting at someone with a sniper rifle, "why don't you come out and fight me like a man?". Because it would be strategically unwise and totally unnecessary in order to beat you, is one potential answer.