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I imagine they want the people of Russia to feel the economic pain of the war, and vote/protest accordingly.
by conradludgate 1mo ago
I imagine they want the people of Russia to feel the economic pain of the war, and vote/protest accordingly.
- tonyedgecombe 1mo agoThat rarely works. Russia has been pounding Ukraine yet the Ukrainians are as defiant as ever.
- conradludgate 1mo agoI think it's a matter of perspective. It's Russia's war. The Russian people didn't want this, but they have to live with their leader's decisions. For the Ukrainians, the alternative is surrendering to Putin.
- echoangle 1mo agoThey are also defending and don’t really have a choice, Russia does.
- tonyedgecombe 28d agoThey could have rolled over, if the majority wanted that then there isn’t much the Ukrainian government could do about it.
- general1465 1mo agoIt kind of works. Imagine that Iran would be able to blow Amazon warehouses in the USA using drones after 4 years of fighting. Sure there would be few fanatics on Fox News wanting to nuke Iran, but most of people would be asking what is the point of bombing Iran in the first place? What's the goal? Because that's what Russians are facing right now. No gas on gas stations. No online ordering of stuff. Enemy drones are flying daily over their heads after 4 years of fighting, Russians are fearing of another mobilization and for what? What is the goal of this war?
- halJordan 1mo agoIt rarely works (Mitchell and Douhet were famously proven wrong a few short years after WW1). But it is the named reason Kiev gives.
- Animats 1mo agoThat sort of is the strategy. Ukraine says they pick targets in Moscow and St. Petersburg that hurt Russia's elites. The trouble is that Russia's elites have little influence over Putin. He crushed that a decade ago. The battlefront in Ukraine has been stuck for a year. People are dying, but nobody is winning. The front lines don't move much. Nobody really knows what to do. It's very WWI.
- mittensc 1mo ago> The trouble is that Russia's elites have little influence over Putin. Well, seems like they better start working on that I'm curious what happens when elites next to putin start losing their wealth by losing their actual assets
- doublerabbit 1mo agoThey get shot, thrown out of a window or their jet explodes. Three simple solutions to eliminate "I want my money". Putin is no joke, he is ex-KGB.
- Animats 1mo agoLeaders of Russia who lose a war do not, historically, survive long. Putin spends most of his time in bunkers now, terrified of both attacks from Ukraine and possible coup attempts from his own people.[1] [1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-bunker-assassination-russia-intelligence-b2970799.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-bunker...
- mittensc 1mo agoPutin is only powerful as long as institutions continue to follow him. He doesnt throw people out of windows himself, he has his state do that. Move enough people away from supporting him and he's gone.
- general1465 1mo agoPrigozin tried to go against Putin with actual army. And he was naive enough to think that he can shot at the king, miss and live. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group_rebellion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group_rebellion
- Arnt 1mo agoIt does much more than that. Wildberries had 45% of the logistics and large warehouses. This means that every company that produces something will have parcels coming in from Wildberries every day. The businesses that owned the ~$6B of burnt inventory may go bankrupt, too, adding to the chaos.