I'd say the opposite.

Such sanctions in the past decade had short-term negative impact on Russian economy, turning positive in the long run

Agree on 1. On 2, maybe and only longer term. They have plenty of internal resources for building up their military.

Russian official says missile crisis unavoidable without arms curbs

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/russian...curbs/47297984

It's all Putin's genius. He has it all figured out.

Yes, for sure. But as in the classical math problems in Russian elementary schools, if you have a pool which is fed 10l per h on one side and siphoned at 20 l per h on the other, how long will it take to drain the pool?

Cuba support for Russia revives Cold War alliance

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/c...ance-q32sdsx5f

Leaders must untie the ‘knot of war’ in Europe

https://www.nti.org/analysis/article...war-in-europe/

The wet dream of hardliners in east and west, a return to the coldwar status quo, when the world made sense.

'Putin waited until the West was weakly led, low on patriotism and manhood, with a media obsessed over domestic trivialities, and politicians with a penchant for waging war on their own citizens. Perfect timing.'

https://twitter.com/TheAliceSmith/st...66161144451073

This is what happens when you let someone go around Europe poisoning their critics and getting away with it. Someone should have taken Putin out years ago!

do you even know what junta means?

Barack Obama: Russia is a regional power showing weakness over Ukraine


https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...raine-weakness

He misread the bullet points sent to him by the Kremlin, don't be too hard on him Putin called Zelenski and his government "fascists" which is really rich having in mind the it was millions of Ukrainians that were sent as first line defense by Stalin against the Nazis

... what an idiot president

Of course, that much is clear. Sanctions could lead to regime change longer term though. It worked once after all.

Ultimately it's the only tool in the box to support Ukraine, for that reason alone we should use sanctions to maximum effect.

Ru assault forces near Hostomel destroyed. Meaning ru failed seizing Kyiv today

What a load of bollocks, Putin isn´t showing weakness, he has made Ukraine his bitch, stopped Nato expansion, has the EU by the short black and curlys, is set to change the map of Europe, both politically and by the colours on the 1:2500´s. Has been almost assured that the Americans won´t give a damn and will come out of this riding a bear without a shirt on.

Sure about that, Ukraines welcomed the Nazis as liberators from the Soviets, at first...!

I'm not sure who is worse nazis or soviets
but i'm sure putin is worse both of them combined

I also saw that, but it was unconfirmed. Most reports are about continued fighting for Hostomel.

I think tomorrow would be the critical day when the Russians reach Kiev. In city warfare tanks and planes matter less and the battle will be for each corner and each building. The Ukrainian morale will be higher than the Russian one so I hope that's their plan: to hold them fighting for Kiev long enough to drain the army as Putin can't keep 2/3 of his army abroad indefinitely and he will be at increasing pressure at home to bring this to a close.