205 | Nate Sibley: Russia's Rulers Aren't Who You Think and What Sanctions Can (and Can't) Do
The Realignment
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Sanctions Are Not a Deterent, It's Operation
Petin is not a tin pot, cold war dictator from post colonial africa. Therefore, even if you could magically handle the money, he owns the russian state,. Soi within this framework, it seems likethe point of my question was, well, if he doesn't care about money in the traditional sense, why would any type of economic sanctions before the invasion have adjusted his decision making? We now, no, he sort of, ike, thinks he has this heaven sent mission to retake u crane that that probably would not have intimidated him. The options aren't great, and they're a kind of a long shot, but that's kind of wht youre left
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