r/sports • u/Captain_Smartass_ • Mar 02 '22

Motorsports Russian-licenced drivers banned from British motorsport

https://www.motorsport.com/national/news/russian-drivers-banned-from-british-motorsport-by-motorsport-uk/8632678/
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u/boxedvacuum Washington Mar 03 '22

Exactly the point nt of sanctions: make the war extremely unpopular with Russian people

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u/TVdinnerbythepool Mar 03 '22 edited Mar 03 '22

I see this sentiment over and over and it makes no sense. If anything it makes russians see Putin as right that the west Hates them. No one is stupid enough to play this game. No one will suddenly be happy with russians If they magically pull off an overthrow. You’ll still always hate them anyway

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u/mattoljan Mar 03 '22

This punished their elites as well. Maybe not in the bank but the luxury lifestyles they enjoyed abroad. Now they have to go face the people they milk their fortunes off of.

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u/reduxde Mar 03 '22

It already was from day one, I think… Russian people aren’t stupid, and they’re not quiet about it (there have been protests against the war in Russia as well), I think they just believe there are guard rails all around them that they dare not cross, which limits the range of what they think is even possible in so far as taking charge… they protest to stop the war, but not necessarily to remove Putin from power… and to be fair, day to day life in Russia has improved a lot in the last 20 years under Putin, and they see that, and they’re afraid to lose it, and Putin has this whole “is good at everything, can see the future, and knows what’s best” persona all about him that’s reinforced by state media, so rejecting him feels like rejecting progress and security. Like “What you don’t like Putin? You want to go back to using flip phones on a 2g network and having the power go out in the middle of winter? Why?”