@itikaneida Fair enough.But there seems to be a consensus that that sanctions have had a limited effect on Russias economy.
My beef though is about who suffers the blunt of sanctions. And it's unsurprisingly the working class, as in Iran, Venezuela, Cuba...
Politicians love sanctions and are for war as they will be unscathed, and may profit.
Sanctions always seem to fall on adversaries of the US and EU, never on them or their allies (Israel) Their structurally unjust nature bothers me the most

Do you have a suggestion what we should do, instead of sanctions? What could we do to stop the war effort that would have the least effect on the working class?

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That's true, but how would you propose to stop Russia's (or some other nation's) armies from waging war? That's what sanctions are for, and if they don't work, then we need to do something else.

@cy Hmm. Diplomacy not sanctions. “It is easy to say pacta sunt servanda, that agreements must be kept. But this requires building and maintaining trust. Doing so will require all sides to stop airing their tired narratives in public — such as when Moscow dismisses the perspectives of Central and Eastern European states as Russophobic or when Western countries pointlessly insist that NATO expansion is directed against no one — and recognize one another’s security concerns as legitimate."

I would like to see better diplomacy on part of any country besides Russia, but it's hard to imagine diplomacy coming from them. Does diplomacy work against an undiplomatic conqueror?