JUST PHILOSOPHISING ON - RUSSIA'S INVASION OF AND ATTEMPT TO SUBJUGATE UKRAINE AND ITS PEOPLE. PART 3.

 

Instead, the West is pursuing the strategy of imposing massive and indiscriminate sanctions - trade, economic and political and diplomatic - against Russia and it  people. 

A kind of total war by all other means, but one which is intended to strangle Russia's economy and economic functioning. With the hope, if not the intention of making it incapable of continuing to wage war against its neighbour. An economic siege of Russia.

However, this strategy is fraught with the difficulty of making it more difficult to bring the conflict to an end. 

There are at least two major reasons for this difficulty. In the first instance, like sieges of old, economic sanctions tend to take quite sometime to weaken 'the enemy' sufficiently to force a surrender, or to allow those enforcing the siege to deliver the coup de grace. 

Secondly, other events could occur while the Siege is taking place, to cause the pressure to be taken of. 

Thirdly, the Economic Siege could provoke the Russian government make more use of its threats to use nuclear arms, as a means of trying to loosen the grip of the Economic Siege. 

And to think that it was the mental stability of Kim Jung Un and his nuclear arms, that the world was afraid of? 

How massively and suddenly have things changed, with President Putin now being added to the 'nuclear armed bogeymen.

And, finally, the Economic Siege, because of its indiscriminate and all encompassing nature, as it applies to the Russian people as a whole.  

Does not provide any encouragement and/or support for Russians who might contemplate acting to remove President Putin from power.  

Or to counsel and encourage him to discontinue his war against Ukraine or reach a compromise with the Ukrainians. 

The Economic Siege lumps the Russian people together, whether they oppose or support the war, and, in doing so, it provides them with the necessity of uniting against the 'common enemy', as the Sanctioneers can now be perceived to be.

To be continued!