European leaders tell Putin to agree to unconditional ceasefire by Monday or face ‘massive’ sanctions
European leaders tell Putin to agree to unconditional ceasefire by Monday or face ‘massive’ sanctions
European leaders, in coordination with Donald Trump, are proposing a 30-day unconditional ceasefire starting 12 May
Ukraine and European leaders agreed on Saturday to an unconditional 30-day ceasefire from 12 May with the backing of US president Donald Trump, threatening president Vladimir Putin with new “massive” sanctions if he failed to comply.
The announcement was made by the leaders of Britain, France, Germany, Poland and Ukraine after a meeting in Kyiv, during which they held a phone call with Trump.
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Haven't Western nations already been applying significant sanctions to Russia? It's pretty clear that hasn't been working, why do they imagine that more of the same will work any better? Oh right, they don't, they just want to look like they're doing something useful.
It’s pretty clear that hasn’t been working
It's pretty clear you never looked into it. The Russian economy is massively strained, they got huge problems due to those sanctions.
No doubt, but as a mechanism of applying pressure to get them to stop invading Ukraine, I think you'll have to agree that it's failed miserably. That's what I (and most people) mean by 'working': accomplishing the intended aim. Huge problems or not, the war continues unabated. Why do you imagine doing more of the same would be any more effective?
That's just the normal state of Russian economy