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This is the point of soft power. Enough pain, and people revolt against the dipshits that earned them the pain.

but if you cause pain to people, aren't you the dipshit?

Not if that people have accepted and are condoning a dictator that is causing even more pain (including to that people themselves); then they are the ultimate dipshits.

what about everyone else?

What about them (us)?

It's not the rest of the world that keeps putting dictators in power in Russia, is it? It's the Russians.

there isn't a single country throught history where the population would be unified in their political opinion, you aren't responsible for actions of your neighbours and there are no justification for using people as tools to hurt economies and states

> there are no justification for using people as tools to hurt economies and states

Yes of course there is: That's the only way to do it. What else do you think economies and states are, if not people?

entitie composed of many things, some of those things are people

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