Thread: Sanctions on Russia: Facts and end-resultsd

Originally Posted by Eric C.

Such steps take very little dignity, and if the Russian authorities are serious about that, it will only make everyone treat the country even worse than it is treated now. As for the GPS thing, it's as insane as their political games resulted in the U.S. adoption ban. "If you continue to piss us off, we'll mistreat even more our fellow citizens" (c)

And they will be happy to be mistreated It will be the west's fault. for some people, the idealogy is more important that how they live or how much stuff they have or can buy, so they will deal with the sanctions. Sanctions are hurting. The value of the ruble has fallen, and sanctioning a bank causes panic. Sure, for many people, it's just an invonvienence that it just got a little harder to buy an app from the app store, but the sanctions are bad for business and investment.

By the way, the economic situation in Ukraine was crap even before this all happened. About two years ago, their credit rating was reduced due to risk, heck even their national airline went out of business due to debts (prinicple debtor was SVO airport of course). A shame, I actually enjoyed flying them.

Originally Posted by bytemare

And they will be happy to be mistreated It will be the west's fault. for some people, the idealogy is more important that how they live or how much stuff they have or can buy, so they will deal with the sanctions. Sanctions are hurting. The value of the ruble has fallen, and sanctioning a bank causes panic. Sure, for many people, it's just an invonvienence that it just got a little harder to buy an app from the app store, but the sanctions are bad for business and investment.

By the way, the economic situation in Ukraine was crap even before this all happened. About two years ago, their credit rating was reduced due to risk, heck even their national airline went out of business due to debts (prinicple debtor was SVO airport of course). A shame, I actually enjoyed flying them.

One would argue if such an economic situation in Ukraine had arisen out of nothing, or it had resulted from the incompetent rule of the "regional party", the leader of which was kicked out of the office not long ago. Anyway, the most important thing for them now is to deal with all the "country traders" and to keep integrity, as THAT is the biggest threat now. After they're done with that, and after they have a legally formed government after the election, they can start solving the economic issues.