EU Discovers Sanctions Harm 'Ordinary People,' Not Just oligarchs
RT highlights Russian Senator Grigory Karasin's outrage over EU visa bans 'attacking ordinary Russians.' This newfound empathy for average citizens from a state-controlled outlet is touching. It's almost as if the Kremlin just realized that broad sanctions, intended to punish the Russian government, also disrupt the lives of its populace, a populace the Kremlin itself restricts far more severely
from accessing information or expressing dissent. (Perhaps they'd prefer sanctions that only target those they've already purged?) The irony here is palpable: a representative of a government notorious for its own oppressive tactics, including arresting peace protestors and blocking independent media, is now lamenting how 'ordinary people' are being inconvenienced by external policies. How many
'ordinary' Ukrainians have had their lives not just 'inconvenienced' but utterly destroyed by the Russian government's actions? This selective outrage from state media serves its purpose well—to create grievances and divert attention from the actual perpetrator of suffering.