That’s interesting, the only support I’ve seen for it amongst regular citizens of Europe is from people that both:
Are well-off enough to be able to take in the price increase without seeing their quality of life impacted
Wanted to inflict economic hardship on Russian citizens through sanctions as a form of punishment for Putin’s policies
Even though I wasn’t very much affected by the inflation, I understand the reasons those sanctions aren’t supported by the majority of people here in Europe, and I sympathize with the hardship of people who already before that were struggling to make ends meet and feed their family.
You can categorize me with the humanitarians. And I already know where to categorize you.
Are well-off enough to be able to take in the price increase without seeing their quality of life impacted
How much of this is perception vs facts, though? Most/all EU countries implemented some kind of subsidy or price capping to protect its more vulnerable population.
Wanted to inflict economic hardship on Russian citizens
Seems improbable, considering that one thing has nothing to do with the other. On the subject of decoupling, Russia is the only one to blame, for losing its bet that the EU would back-off under the threat of energy scarcity during winter. It was Putin’s plan, and it was miscalculated to say the least. On the topic of hardship of the Russian population, believe it or not, there is a large Russian diaspora in Europe, and people are generally quite sympathetic and supportive with the normal people. Also, the hardship is not the result of energy decoupling but that of the sanctions, and yep, it sucks to be living under a tyrant’s rule in a late-stage oligarchy, and even more so when the whole world is trying to find peaceful means to reduce its warmongering potential.
You can categorize me with the humanitarians. And I already know where to categorize you.
I don’t dare pretending to know you, which may be the higher humanitarian ground in this discussion, believe it or not.
From what I can tell a majority of Europeans DO support sanctions. Do you have anything other than your personal anecdotal evidence to counter this data?
That’s interesting, the only support I’ve seen for it amongst regular citizens of Europe is from people that both:
Even though I wasn’t very much affected by the inflation, I understand the reasons those sanctions aren’t supported by the majority of people here in Europe, and I sympathize with the hardship of people who already before that were struggling to make ends meet and feed their family.
You can categorize me with the humanitarians. And I already know where to categorize you.
How much of this is perception vs facts, though? Most/all EU countries implemented some kind of subsidy or price capping to protect its more vulnerable population.
Seems improbable, considering that one thing has nothing to do with the other. On the subject of decoupling, Russia is the only one to blame, for losing its bet that the EU would back-off under the threat of energy scarcity during winter. It was Putin’s plan, and it was miscalculated to say the least. On the topic of hardship of the Russian population, believe it or not, there is a large Russian diaspora in Europe, and people are generally quite sympathetic and supportive with the normal people. Also, the hardship is not the result of energy decoupling but that of the sanctions, and yep, it sucks to be living under a tyrant’s rule in a late-stage oligarchy, and even more so when the whole world is trying to find peaceful means to reduce its warmongering potential.
I don’t dare pretending to know you, which may be the higher humanitarian ground in this discussion, believe it or not.
From what I can tell a majority of Europeans DO support sanctions. Do you have anything other than your personal anecdotal evidence to counter this data?
https://news.yahoo.com/poll-reveals-65-europeans-support-130000671.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAC-0LH9gd9Vm_t1oZFFK57_FZZkKOQBTPIoliJYqzCso-S4ppu7ZvsSzultkUJNtkqDbVYmO8Ek6CNScw3_2wdkbxebP-UdBIuR76R0gv9qXWWoVpURVdTCyOaX9N9vdyPhAYXKGkR7wGxBnEW_HQvlGcnN-gRunNrjDSrrGbq1l
Edit: here’s an even more recent source
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20220616IPR33222/eu-wide-survey-in-face-of-ukraine-war-citizens-close-ranks-in-support-of-eu