The idea is to try and make it unsustainable for Russia to hold. --They have to pour money into the region to keep control of it due to people in the region being unhappy, out of work, etc.
I'm not saying it's necessarily a good strategy, mind you.
I'm not saying it's necessarily a good strategy, mind you.
From what I've heard Russia is doing exactly that. And the people there seem happy, atleast according to a reddit AMA by a Crimean.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/11/14/crimea-persecution-crime...
It's amazing to me that anyone would put any faith in a random AMA in an occupied territory.
For an alternative random redditor, this guy had to get divorced, all his friends left, and he's leaving for Kiev: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9p6d9r/serious_r...
Why, then, blocking does not apply to all Russia, but to its victims only?
If you have no better alternative, what reason is there to be upset?