Ukraine Russia War: Sanctions Driven by Which Norms?
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Many are saying that sanctions on Russia isn’t only going to affect Russia only but there would be a cold chill that would spread across globally where everyone would catch the cold ie 2008 financial crisis–style economic shock. Fair enough. It is understandable why inhumane commoners-suffering sanctions are slapped on Russia so to display a pretence of deterrence, sanctions which the ruling elites oligarchs wouldn’t be affected as much as the general Russian public and of course the mass public across the world from the economy fallout, given Russia is one of the larger economies upon whose energy many (sadly) have to depend; yet no sanctions are slapped on racist/apartheid state Israel, a country that is consistently involved in illegal brutal occupation and annexation of Palestinian lands with her periodic Russian-style indiscriminate bombing on Gaza’s civilian infrastructure including schools and hospitals killing hundreds o…
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