On: On the Weaponisation of Open Source

[mardifoufs]

Why would that result in changes in their political system? And sorry but your last sentence is clearly coming from a very... western perspective. It's only true until it's you actually face hardship. I'm sure for most people security is more important than ideology or freedom; even in the west we saw in the past 2 years that a huge chunk of the population was willing to trade pretty much any right or freedom in exchange for safety.

There's just no need to pretend it's for their own good when it's trivially easy to prove that sanctions rarely lead to the end of a dictatorship. Just look at Cuba,Iran,NK or even venezuala.

[scotty79 → mardifoufs]

I'm from Poland. I stood in the breadlines for hours as a kid. I remember rationing basic foodstufs like sugar, sweets, meat, flour, eggs.

And trust me, democaracy that we got out of discontent stemming from economic devastation is worth every hardship we endured.