Well said, I never supported the boycott of the Russian gambling platforms just like many Russians never supported the agenda of Putin to attack the Ukrainians. I think for their boycotting of the gambling platforms owns by Russian citicens is to compel Putin to stop his political agenda. I don't think this boycotting will have much effects on Putin's agenda.
The opinion is very right that many Russians don't want war to happen, but what happens in war is the will of the government and has nothing to do with civilians. So it's an unfair decision if we condemn everything about Russia including the gambling platform because the platform owner has absolutely nothing to do with war.
Casinos that are registered in Russia have to pay taxes on their earnings. Tax money goes into the Russian budget, and then this money supports the war, so it is somehow related to that war. The less money Russian casinos make, the less money there will be to prolong this war. The sooner it ends, the better, so boycotting Russian casinos is a good thing.
But do we really believe that they are really relying much specially on gambling industry? We dont know on how much they do made speaking of tax of this industry but its still a good initiative if we do really mean about
cutting off some sources of their funding specially on this war situation.It might not be that ethical on some areas or point but i do still agree with this initiative even though its not an assurance on stopping
the war but at least it do have some bit nor contribute on the possible effect which might really count as well.
Of course, boycotting the gambling industry itself will not stop the war. I don't think there is official information about how much money it is, but I don't think it is little amount. The boycott should affect as much of the economy as possible, as well as sanctions of other countries. Only when the entire Russian economy feels this painfully it will be possible to stop the killing of people. In my opinion, this is the only peaceful way to force Russia to end this war, and by boycotting Russian casinos, we can make little contribution to that.
On the recent news or updates of this war.
Seems like they wont really be stopping anytime soon despite of sanctions and boycotting or other means.