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vanusa commented on Russia's top bank quits Europe due to sanctions reuters.com/business/fina... · Posted by u/awb
The problem with this type of sanctions is that they are only going to work once, no country on the periphery of "polite society" is going to put their faith on any of these institutions going forward. The strength of these types of global payments systems is that they are global and neutral. If they stop being neutral soon enough they will stop being global.
If they stop being neutral soon enough they will stop being global.
Right, but then situations emerge when it is no longer possible to be neutral.
"It’s one thing to imagine a Russian store clerk believing in the story of genocide, it’s another to hear an academic who has published in English-language journals profess such views"
That is fair and well, but in the academic spirit, is there a counter-argument she wishes to offer? Is she suggesting that there is no conflict in Donbas for the last 8 years?
"who has published in English-language journals"
The gall of this statement too. Wouldn't someone with access to English language news be more entrenched than a store clerk considering all the falsehoods from Gaddafi feeding troops Viagra for rape rampages to the Nayirah testimony to the suppressed OPCW chemical attack reports in Syria to WMDs.
"the replies I have gotten have made me truly appreciate how polarized the Russian population is."
And there's no attempt to present data for this statement. There's no way to reproduce her sentiment from primary data. Is she stating we should accept her conclusion about the Russian population based on one person's opinions?
The authoritarian nature of the governing system in Russia makes it nearly impossible to gather such data.
Is she suggesting that there is no conflict in Donbas for the last 8 years?
That is very clearly is not what she's saying.
She didn't accept that academics can have opinions.
Opinions are one thing. Her concern seems to be with the fact that otherwise intelligent and articulate colleagues can be so naïve -- and to some extent, willingly self-deluded -- about the utter insanity their government is currently perpetrating on a neighboring country.