Assuming these are valid, is there a practical way to promote this to the people with the power to utilise these?
meninblck9 on
If they wanted to shut down the loopholes, they would have done it already. The West is great at symbolism, terrible at anything that might inconvenience a company or ally making money off the back door
jargo3 on
I feel like that essentially a monopoly for the whole Russian market is worth more to that single chinese company than access to western markets that it could lose with sanctions.
MightyTaur on
We are not even turning any screws on Putin’s Russia. We really ought to start doing that
vjeuss on
this is seriously interesting. An example:
> “A lubricant shortage would seriously damage Russia’s war machine,” it wrote in its latest report.
I’m not too convinced of how far they’d go, but at a time when there are compelling signs that Russia is finally (economically) capitulating, strategic moves like these could be the mercy blow.
GwynBleidd88 on
Europe could shut down Russia’s shadow fleet if they really wanted to, but they aren’t. Stop talking loudly and then not delivering on the practical steps, it’s embarrassing. From a European.
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Dekleptocracy, a civil society group that researches Russia’s war economy, has identified [several obscure but potentially key sanctions](https://uk.news.yahoo.com/west-missing-obscure-sanctions-could-070021899.html) it says could seriously disrupt Russia’s war effort in Ukraine.
Assuming these are valid, is there a practical way to promote this to the people with the power to utilise these?
If they wanted to shut down the loopholes, they would have done it already. The West is great at symbolism, terrible at anything that might inconvenience a company or ally making money off the back door
I feel like that essentially a monopoly for the whole Russian market is worth more to that single chinese company than access to western markets that it could lose with sanctions.
We are not even turning any screws on Putin’s Russia. We really ought to start doing that
this is seriously interesting. An example:
> “A lubricant shortage would seriously damage Russia’s war machine,” it wrote in its latest report.
I’m not too convinced of how far they’d go, but at a time when there are compelling signs that Russia is finally (economically) capitulating, strategic moves like these could be the mercy blow.
Europe could shut down Russia’s shadow fleet if they really wanted to, but they aren’t. Stop talking loudly and then not delivering on the practical steps, it’s embarrassing. From a European.