BBCNEWS BBC News March 15, 2022 17:14:00
You are restricting trade with another country, so you will be affected yourself. yes, of course you will. but there's also a whole other generation of sanctions where you can focus your sanctions on individuals, and that has a much greater effect on those individuals and everyone else. when it comes to the putin regime, so many of these oligarchs are close friends of putin's, and they have his gold in his pockets. he doesn't keep his money abroad in his own name, he keeps it in the name of others — so clamping down on them is also a pretty good way of clamping down on putin. ., ., , , . ., ...
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