Not going to happen.
Russia doesn’t sell plastic vibrators on Amazon.
They sell oil and gas - something people NEED.
There is a difference between a need and a want.
Besides, 140+ countries did NOT support the war. You have the minority position, even though our non-propagandist factual media talks about “the world.”
“The world” which you talk about is basically the US and all those part of their economic/political/military hegemony.
These are the countries actually sanctioning (and that isn’t even entirely airtight): https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/INTERACTIVE-Which-countries-have-sanctioned-Russia-Feb-19-2023.png?w=770&resize=770%2C770
If you want to sanction most of the world, good luck! LOL
We’ll see how long before you run out of: rubber, oil, gas (the US cannot cover it all), copper, nickel, cobalt, gold, silver, manganese, titanium, chromium, bismuth, aluminum, most of your rare earth minerals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare-earth_mineral
Do you know how long your transportation heavy, information based, and industrial society will last without those?
Besides total dependency on many of these nations for resources, guess where Germany exports to: China (5.8%), Turkey (1.8%), South Africa (.6%), UAE (.64%), Iraq (.1%), Mexico (1.1%), India (1.1%), Brazil (.86%), Hong Long (.38%), Malasia (.43%), Egypt (.26%), Russia (.5%, even after sanctions), Belarus (1%), Thailand (.33%), Uzbekistan (.07%), Columbia (.12%), Kuwait (.08%), Quatar (.085%), Vietnam (.24%)... (all other small export markets combined you would have to sanction ~3%).
For Germany, your plan would have them sanction what amounts to 18.5% of all their exports (they already lost in Belarus and Russia). However, far worse, they would run into critical resource issues, and you may as well tell the public there that the economy is shutting down. Get your loincloth ready!: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loincloth
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We decided to get tangled up in a proxy war against someone that is a near peer, not some third-rate banana republic.
The usual economic coercion or damage we cause (through the world bank, sanctions, etc.), our usual information operations and attempts to destabilize the country, our usual attempt at isolating the country politically, it all doesn’t work as effectively.
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As for Germany
You are now paying more for gas and oil which impacts the average person in a negative way, but also the economy in a macro level by making you less competitive on the world stage (prices of your goods go up).
You now have a big target on your back and are likely to also be impacted in future proxy conflicts as the Russians play the same game with us. There will be a pay back, folks here are just so arrogant and stupid that they don’t realize this. Of course it’ll be all immoral, wrong and of course different when they plunge a knife into us in some proxy conflict.
You have become entirely dependent on the US for your energy. Without the US, your cars, planes, many of your trains, trucks, ships, barges, don’t run. Even the oil you get from the Middle East and North Africa is controlled by the US. Better not piss us off.
You have lost the Belarus and Russian markets for your products (never huge, but they were meaningful).
Tell me, how has Germany benefitted from this? What is your end game?
The majority of the Western democracies support the Ukrainian cause: NATO, Japan, S. Korea, Australia, etc. That there are scores of third-world sh*t-holes (Trump) that don't does not elicit a "moral panic" in me. However, I do think that we should impose punitive sanctions upon them, if they trade with Russia.
Tell me, how has Germany benefitted from this?
Don't care. It is morally right to support Ukraine.
Regards,
