Ye, this is going to keep happening. They would need to change their narrative to stop people from going. Heck, they've been selling stolen Ukrainian properties on the open market for some time now. There's Russians that think they own seaside properties in Ukraine.

It's the American method of Colonialism-ethnic cleansing through dilution (American Indians, Hawaii, etc). China has been doing the same in Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, etc. The Colonial era never ended and I doubt we will progress much as a species until it does.

Because it couldn’t.

The coalition consisted of several major economic powers, and the US alone was and still is a global hard power, issuing sanctions would do little damage to the US, force it to leverage her own soft power and would ultimately cause damage to the country doing the sanctioning. Russia sanctioning the US is like a child picking a fight with Godzilla, Godzilla wouldn’t likely notice, and the end result is a flattened child.

Russia by comparison has nowhere near the same leverage or power and the Ruble isn’t a global trading standard.

Next you're going to tell us that a question mark is used when someone asks a question.

I really don't get how so many on reddit have no clue what quotation marks are *actually* for. They think they can only be used as scare quotes.

I don't think seatbelts were meant to protect against bombs.