Sanctions Begin To Bite In Russia

[Stickybottle]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60558731

You feel for the ordinary Russian citizen in all of this
Especially those opposed to or having no affiliation with Putin

Let us hope it has the desired effect quickly and the masses turn against him
Thus forcing a regime change in the Kremlin

[dannyk13]

Hope springs eternal.I think Putin has too much control to allow any change.

[William51]

The west must not let up with the sanctions as it needs time for the ordinary Russians to confront the Kremlin to stop the war.

[rowanwitch]

It is unlikely to be the ordinary Russian people who will stop him. There are a few key players who can, heads of the Russian Mafia, and highly placed generals perhaps. If sanctions affect their ability to function they may well act. Unfortunately that brings the risk of even more dangerous players joining the game but there would be a period during which positions are renegotiated etc when things calm down a bit.

[youngmafbog]

War generally affects the 'little' people the most.

I'm not sure that removing Putin will make much of a regime change. Russia operated in a totally different way to the West and although not communist now it is very authoritarian. The next one up would most likely be from Putins inner circle and could even be worse.

[douglas9401]

Or better.

[Atheist]

I've heard on BBC radio that we will also suffer from price hikes in connection with oil and petrol prices.

[youngmafbog]

That is correct atheist. It will affect the wholesale price on the world markets which of course will be passed on.

Now if only we had some oil/gas fields we could use to make us more self sufficient .....

[douglas9401]

One should be careful of sympathising with the plight of the tovarich in the street lest one is condemned as 5C.

[jno]

Atheist, I went looking for petrol yesterday and was surprised when the first two supermarkets I tried didn't even have any. I don't know whether there really are shortages or it was just a fluke.

After that I found a service station that did have some, at the princely price of £1.53 a litre.