Sanctions on Russia over Ukraine invasion will hurt Russian economy and its people. But they won't force Putin to change his mind.
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The sanctions on Russia imposed by the Western alliance is far beyond anything that could be considered reasonable. The sanctions didn’t stay confined to just the targets closest to Putin and individuals with actual power in the Russian government. They are hurting innocent Russian civilians who have no connection to Kremlin and no say in the matter of Putin’s foreign policy.

Sources
CIA profile on Russia: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factboo...
Real GDP Purchasing Power Parity: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factboo...
Russian economy profile: https://www.britannica.com/place/Russ...
IMF economic data: https://www.imf.org/external/datamapp...

The First Gulf War: https://www.britannica.com/event/Pers...
Iraq sanctions hurting people: https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/01/wo...
Counter-argument to the toll of sanctions on Iraq: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/w...
Deterioration due to sanctions: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Iraq's child mortality rate: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4417422
Excess mortality: https://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/st...

Study on the factors for sanctions to work: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...

Sanctions on Russia:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-...
https://indianexpress.com/article/wor...
Banning of news and social media:
https://www.cnet.com/news/russian-new...
https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-yo...

Putin's autocratic control over media and information
Google & Apple in Russia: https://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/202...
https://www.theguardian.com/media/202...

Swift ban
https://www.theguardian.com/technolog...

Switzerland's privacy haven: https://www.icij.org/investigations/p...
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022...

China's CIPS: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...

Zelenskiy's pleas to NATO: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-ukra...
No-fly zone: https://www.theguardian.com/world/202...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Ban on Russian gamers: https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/ukra...

Poutine: https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrin...

Banning Russian gymnastics team: https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/othe...

Banning Russian Paralympic athletes: https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-a...

Calls to ban Russian students: https://www.foxnews.com/media/eric-sw...

China's diplomacy towards Russia: https://thediplomat.com/2022/03/can-c...
China's $117bn contract with Russia: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/...

China helping Russia: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other...
China not joining sanctions: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/02/china...

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