Sweeping Western Sanctions Fail to Cripple Putin | M.R. Narayan Swamy

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Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring down Russia
by Stephanie Baker

Mudlark
Pages: xiv + 351; Price: Rs 699

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When Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, it heralded the largest land war in Europe since World War II. But there was no way the West was going to go for a direct military confrontation with a country with more nuclear warheads than any other. That would have been disastrous.

So, Western governments led by the United States unleashed an equally full-scale assault on the Russian economy in a bid to degrade Vladimir Putin