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GrotesquelyObese t1_j21s5i6 wrote

Reply to comment by agjios in New sanctions starting to bite Russia’s economy as Moscow admits deficit impact by Minezenroll

No. It was to starve Russia without causing global economic collapse. Zelensky was and is still pissed that the world wasn’t/isn’t going far enough with sanctions that would have immediate consequences.

If you notice the article currently posted from today is saying that the economy is starting to tank you are posting from the past that say they aren’t doing as much damage as people want. Now there is evidence that the Russian economy is slowing.

I don’t believe that there hasn’t been serious damage to the Russian economy since the source of russian economic data is controlled by the Russian government.

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agjios t1_j21xk94 wrote

Your claim of what the sanction was for is counter to what the US administration, the US Department of Treasury, and the US Department of State have all explicitly stated. And what all US allies that have also gone in on sanctioning Russia have stated. I’m inclined to believe them over you.

The various US officials are all frustrated because they enacted these sanctions based on the Intel and the forecasts that the Russian GDP would shrink significantly more than it has and that the Russian currency would experience much greater inflation than it has. Russia has unfortunately defied expectations and has been measurably successful in countering what the sanctions have attempted to do.

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