Are Sanctions Failing Or Worse Still, Helping Putin ?

[Gromit]

There is evidence that sanctions are having no effect on Russia.

The collspse of the Rouble was widely predicted and expected. In reality the Rouble is the best performing currency in 2022 and rising and stronger than ever.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/29/putin-ruble-west-sanctions-russia-europe

[Spicerack]

Sanctions advocate/activist finds evidence that sanctions work.

In other shock news. There's no evidence they work, or exist, in Saudi Arabia or China.

[ichkeria]

Fascinatingly, the mostly pro-Kremlin Russian press is extraordinarily blunt about many of the effects of sanctions, and sarcastic about a lot of the optimism “as our country slides from the 21st century to the 20th”

[ichkeria]

Yale university is an advocate of sanctions?

[Spicerack]

Sonnenfield certainly is.

[Gromit]

Ich,
See Khandro’s YouTube link at 22:40.

[ichkeria]

I'm talking about the Yale study. Which is by a group of academics who've studied russia's economy in depth.

[Spicerack]

Er, that'd be Sonnenfield's dept.

[ichkeria]

Sonnenfield is also correct: these people are economists

Simon Jenkin is a journalist who likes to present an alternative view, which he is entitled perfectly to do, but he's wrong