Sanctions that would cripple Russia
Fact: Russia's population is less than half the USA population
Fact: Russia is struggling to maintain its population count
Fact: Russia has a lower total GDP than Brazil! [2.097 trillion USD (2013) versus 2.246 trillion USD (2013)]
Brazil is considered a third world country.
Solution: Offer a cash bounty people who averaged a salary over 80,000 Rubles to emigrate to the USA. This would seriously hit Russia's productivity.
Solution: Offer a stipend for single Russian women of child bearing age to emigrate to the USA. This would seriously hit Russia's population.
The USA could easily absorb 20 million PRODUCTIVE Russian immigrants. That would reduce the population nearly 15% and may reduce GDP by 30%. It would also cement later population declines.
Look at this information below on Russia's population stagnation problem.
https://www.google.com/publicdata/ex...SA&hl=en&dl=en
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