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Congratulation, you are part of the problem!
So what are we supposed to do?
Not sanction Russia?
Apply sanctions on an individual basis?
EDIT: Nothing of value down below, just me and someone who only wants to be outraged. Delve deeper of your own accord.
Exactly. ACF has published a list of every single person responsible for the war. Most of them are not sanctioned because they are filthy rich and have already bought themselves passports in various EU countries. Targeting Russian passports does absolutely nothing to them as they can just use another.
Sanctions are to punish the whole country including individuals. Sanctions work because it makes lives of individuals worse so that they have reason to be unhappy and do something against the reasons the sanctions is put on them. It makes it harder for leaders to be accepted, if under their power live gets worse. And if a leader is not accepted by enough of their people, the chances of resistance is bigger. And the countries that have put sanctions on, want exactly that.
This idea ignores how Russia works. Everyone already knows it's a totalitarian shithole. They just don't have the means to fight it, so they either lay low and play along, or try to get the fuck out. Sanctions hit the second group, as well as companies that implement them because they're losing income. In fact, older folk here still grumble at USSR collapse and how effective free reign of capitalism was in the 90s at extracting wealth out of the country.
Even if that idea was to hold any water, straight up blocks are not what you'd need. For example, when I open up a site and I see a block page, the idea that pops into my head is always the same - "what a bunch of assholes...". I can bypass the block either way, but the difference is that it can say either "blocked by the ministry of truth", or "blocked because ur russian, haha get rekt". Given how easy it is to get hit by censorship for innocent things, it's rather easy to shift the blame, while keeping the business running, by just standing up to the ideas of free speech, like not removing the "celebrating the pride month" logo in that country specifically, like all of them did...
I guess the politicians of the countries having the sanctions in place have still to see and learn how the Russian people react to sanctions. I think many of them only know the Russian culture from some “schoolbooks” if even (like me 😅)
It's besides the point because with the Linux kernel should be run under a principle akin to net-neutrality where we do not let geopolitics affect it (do you really want Trump's America to have legal power over it?)
The solution here is simple, just do not kick the maintainers unless they have confirmed ties to the Russian state. It's not always practical to make sanctions precisely targeted, but in this case it actually is easily so.
Let us all love Lain 😁
Other than that, can we still trust .ru and .su domains?
Nobody could ever trust .su domains, it's always been a hive of scum and villainy. No joke, it's been notorious for scamming and various cyber crime, which is a shame since it's a great novelty domain.
Many know it from piracy 🤭
The worst cyber crime of them all, denying multi-national megacorps of the potential but unlikely revenue of several dollars! 👮
Are you under the impression I'm some kind of strategical genius of political negotiation? I have no idea.
My point is that holding everybody responsible for what the specific form of government of the specific country they happened to be born into is a confortable truth to push back on the much more controversial take of all of us being the very same thing.
And to get slightly more practical, it's asinine to suggest that anybody that disagrees with a government has the means, or the will, or the duty to straight up move to another country (obviously to a flawless country, good luck with that).
The way you denigrate different opinions, it seems you may be the one to think that, actually.
That's just the misanthropy leaking...
I'll ask differently. Let's just assume there is a way to make sure there is no overreach of sanctions, but it's going to cost millions of tax dollars or euros. Would you rather have that money spent on things that are close to you (education, healthcare, infrastructure etc) or would you want that money to be spent identifying which Russians should or shouldn't be sanctioned?
I agree, somethings shit just sucks. However, the other person said:
Those people have already had the means, will or duty to move to another country. What's their excuse for keeping the Russian citizenship?
There's plenty of reason, the most likely is that they love their country, their homeland, their city, the network of friends, the memories and they hope, one day, to be able to get back.
Would you still love me if I was a giant moth?
So it's literally their decision to keep their citizenship and be sanctioned, but you're still outraged about it?
I would definitely hate you less because I really hate trolls.
I'm not a troll but it's unsurprising you are quick to hate considering your opinions toward mankind.
A country is not their government, their history is not their current posturing, the action of their military is not the expression of their local communities. The idea that since you are attached to a certain place is equivalent to sharing the broad general responsibility of its actions through history is what ultimately fuels shit like, you guessed it, the Russian invasion of Ukrain itself.
You're literally avoiding answering the hard questions and instead throw up shit like that moth thing. That is standard troll behavior. Just because you want to believe you're not a troll doesn't mean you aren't one. Go on, prove me wrong, do the non-troll thing and actually answer my questions instead of tip-toeing around them.
Technically they are. The country is the governing body set up by the people that make up said country. In the case of Russia that government is corrupted and that government is to the detriment to its own people and now also a detriment to the surrounding countries. I am sympathetic to the struggles of the average Russian, but unlike you I don't live in la-la land where everyone gets to have and eat their cake. They've let their country slip into corruption and ultimately that is on them because we can't fix that without an even greater conflict. They've let their government get corrupted and the actions of that corrupt government has brought sanctions upon them.
And I get that not all of them are to blame, but we get back to the questions you deliberately avoided. Are we not supposed to sanction Russia and let them have their way with Ukraine? If we should sanction Russia and there is a costly way to make sure those sanctions wouldn't overreach, do you want your tax money to be spent essentially on the well-being of Russians. Even if you know you're likely to gain little to no benefit from that spending?
I was making what I thought was an obvious equivalence between your realistically impossible to answer question to the impossible question an insecure partner blurts out.
Are you asking what value I give money? What price I put on human lives? If I would give up everything to keep the innocents out of harm?
You see your question is way too broad.
But of fucking course I'd be willing to spend more not to impart sufference in innocent strangers, that's the point of most things people do daily when it comes to being an ethical being. Would you enjoy saving money if Police would simply arrest everybody in a 2Km range from any murder location and call it a day?
Then give those maintainers your money to get them out of Russia and help them get a different citizenship so they wouldn't be affected by the sanctions. If you don't have that money start a go-fund-me. After-all you said you'd give up everything to keep the innocent out of harm.
My question isn't about money, it's about how far you're willing to inconvenience yourself to help those unfairly treated Russians. The tax thing is just the bare minimum anyone could do because we're paying taxes anyway. It takes no extra effort on your part, it's just a question of where your tax money gets spent. Your quality of life drops but at least you know the wrong Russian didn't get sanctioned. Is that the inconvenience you're willing to make?
I don't see you making any inconveniences. I don't see you making any effort beyond being outraged on the web. But feel free to prove me wrong.
I never said I'm willing to give up everything...
Anyway, your "arguments" boil down to a shifting grey area between, "they deserve it" and a very dispassionate "there's no alternative".
It's simplistic and dangerous. I hope you are young.
Have a day.
Like I said, you're not wiling to do anything beyond being outraged on the web. My argument is very simple. We need to do something about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and that something is supposed to be something that is as inconvenient as it can be to Russia, while being as little of an inconvenience to us. Part of that something is broad strokes sanctions. The more specific you want those sanctions to be the more inconvenient it becomes for us. And by doing nothing you're agreeing with me because you're not willing to inconvenience yourself for those Russians.
You think I'm being simplistic and dangerous, you're the one wanting to have your cake and eat it. I understand that there's a clear trade-off in what you're demanding and I understand that most people, including you, are not actually willing to take that trade-off. You're the one being childish and throwing a tantrum because you're not getting everything you want.
Let me go back to the root of your ever shifting discussion:
Yes and that is not very much.
I'm not sure where and why you started going on about my personal hypocrisy toward the application of santions as the best strategy to counter Russian expansionism or how much it is agreeable as something to apply to the whole of the population.