Full Sanctions. Now.
The Russian Invasion in Ukraine has brought record sanctions against a nation since WW2. But Not Complete Sanctions. Embargo Medicine. Today
New platform same me. Its been almost a year since Russia launched a full scale genocidal invasion of Ukraine. Genocidal as in Buha, Irpin, Kherson, and many many more. Where the Russian army goes, atrocities follow. Over 90% of their cruise missiles are being used on civilian and not military targets: water treatment, power plants, and mid day mall strikes. Until they stop shooting, we should move to an entire blockade of all goods into Russia, including goods deemed ‘humanitarian.’
Because Russia does not care about their citizens, one of the things to stop being financed due to their sanctions is their pharmaceutical production. As of November, we were reading reports of shortages of key medecines in Russia postponing surgeries. You know what would make Russia have a lot more medicine? If they weren’t engaging in a war of aggression!
As of today, the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine is reporting 135,010 dead. Using a very conservative estimate of 2 casualties for every eliminated soldiers, that would give us an estimate of 270,000 Russian war casualties (per all of the Mriya Report military experts we expect between 2-5 casualties for every eliminated soldier).
Their medical system is significantly strained because it has massive new medical needs of injured Russian soldiers. In this case, the normally ‘humanitarian’ appearing medical supplies are not humanitarian at all, they are being used to heal genocidal soldiers. Russian citizens are supporting this war. At this point, the number of dead Russian is a multiple of the Russians who ever came out to protest. And only the dead are rising by hundreds per day.
Having a full embargo of all goods. With secondary sanctions (aka trade with Russia and you can’t trade with the US and Europe) is far more simple to enact than secondary sanctions. It is much harder to corrupt a system when all movements of goods into and out of Russia are dealt with as deeply problematic, and not just some. Trucks full of ‘Armenian’ and ‘Georgian’ and other peoples goods are backing up at the Georgian/Russian border (per TASS, and I won’t link TASS)—they mostly aren’t Armenian goods or Georgian goods. They were purchased by merchants and shell companies from Europe/America for resale in Russia.
Russia is acting worse than North Korea (who hasn’t rolled tanks on their neighbor in 70 years). Its time we start treating them like North Korea.