Will the financial sanctions against Putin affect you personally?

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Most of what Putin does has a large component for local consumption. So far all this either plays well at home or distracts from problems at home/ And its about perception. You dont think for a second that several instances of highly Visible (and well publicized) poisonings of trouble makers didnt fail to kill their targets on purpose. He gets a lot more mileage for his message by almost killing them. If he wants you gone, you just disappear or turn ip with a bullet in the head.
My point being that he calculates very carefully before moving. Watch the reports of how the Russian protesters are being handled gently (for them) it seems he is trying not to look heavy handed on his own people.😷

@whowasthatmaskedman I agree with everything except the Skripal poisoning which I assume is what you were referring to. Skripal has been out of the country for 20 years and any sensitive info he had was handed over long since. He was no longer a risk to Russia by any stretch of the imagination. According to his family he wanted to go back home to Russia. Now that matters because that would make him a serious liability to British intelligence.

We are also expected to believe two amateurs poisoned him with one of the deadliest substances on earth in jeans and a tshirt. The idea is laughable.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Yes. The world of spycraft is complex. Anything is possible,😷