Sunday, April 8, 2018
Many Russians Will Welcome Harsh Western Actions Against Oligarchs, Skobov Says
Paul Goble
Staunton, April 8 – One of the “most popular†arguments Putin supporters in the West use against the imposition of sanctions against the Russian oligarchs is that this will intensify anti-Western attitudes among Russians and lead ever more of them to unite around the Kremlin leader against the West, Oleg Skobov says.
But in fact, the Russian commentator points out, “a significant part of Russians animated by anti-Western attitudes do not have any warm feelings for the Putinist kleptocracy.†Moreover, their anti-Western attitudes are in many cases the result of their judgment that the West has allowed the oligarchs to live so well abroad (kasparov.ru/material.php?id=5AC9977813369).
Consequently, Skobov continues, “if the ruling circles of European countries decide to adopt real measures against the Russian kleptocrats who have settled among them, this could change the opinion of many Russians about the West to the better†and not to the West as those opposed to sanctions routinely insist.
Read more at: http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2018/04/many-russians-will-welcome-harsh.html
One forum member at the other place, pushes this blog. In this case, I think this is a pretty good article, in fact, most of their articles are. So, the Russian "common"-type of people, will welcome the Oligarchs being sanctioned per the article.
