Remember, international sanctions ENDED the Cold War without a nuke being fired.

[Imallin4Joe]

Just sayin..

Memo to other world leaders..

Follow President Joe Biden's lead and impose tough sanctions on Putin.

Join Joe. You'll save lives.

[brooklynite]

1. And why are you saying this?

Are you under the assumption that anyone would be advocating military action (much less a "nuke being fired"?)

[Imallin4Joe]

3. My point is that sanctions have the power to avoid war.

Without a shot being fired.

A peacenik like me prefers negotiation over bloodshed, anyday.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. I seem to recall that there was an arms race involved, and a lot of people got drafted.

There were some near-confrontations, in Berlin and Cuba.

Could I be mistaken?

[Imallin4Joe]

5. Arms race, yes.

The Soviet Union crumbled due to international sanctions and trade boycotts, a costly arms race with the USA, and a costly war with Afghanistan.

JFK's spine ended the Cuba crisis.

[Spider Jerusalem]

4. Russia didn't provide most of Europe's natural gas back then, the calculus is different today (n/t)

[Imallin4Joe]

6. Russia's economy might crash if Putin shut off the gas flow.

Vlad knows this. He doesn't have the hand that he is trying to show to the world.

Putin is bluffing.

[KentuckyWoman]

7. I understood it to be more complicated than that.

The sanctions were an important tool but it was also the environment in which they were used at the time. Remember the USSR was more or less bankrupted by Afghanistan War. The mismanagement within the USSR itself. They simply fell apart.

I have no idea if my understanding is correct. I only know what the newspapers and news magazines were reporting at the time.

[Xolodno]

8. Bullshit.

Cuba and Iran continue to laugh. And Libya collapsed AFTER sanctions were lifted.

What killed the USSR was corruption, cost of maintaining the empire (why I don't believe the junk that Putin wants to re-create it, it helped cause the fall of the USSR and Tsar) and whole laundry list of factors. There was no silver bullet. And while the free world went through depressions, recessions, etc. The USSR was largely unfazed.

Ironically it was the USSR's move towards more free market reforms when it fell apart, first a coup by hardliners then a coup led by Yelstin.

[PortTack]

9. Germany's chancellor is warning Putin of immediate sanctions, others will follow

And you are right, sanctions do work. The Russian economy is still struggling from the 2014 sanctions.

The Cuba and Iran sanctions really don’t compare. Not big trading countries or world powers