The Russian invasion of Ukraine prompted the usual American response of imposing economic sanctions on Russia and Russian nationals. You only have to look at Cuba and Iran to see how consistently ineffective sanctions are. To the contrary, they tend to increase the popularity of the targeted government as a a siege mentality sets in.
Good Luck with Sanctions
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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Good luck with sanctions.
Russia is not Chile, Venezuela, or any other little country that the USA likes to kick around.
Russia is like Japan when the USA embargoed it, like a big nuclear armed Japan that can bite back as hard as its bitten.
It’s not just that the sanctions are ineffective at their stated aim. They are the start of something much, much bigger.
https://michael-hudson.com/2022/03/the-american-empire-self-destructs/
At whom are the sanctions aimed? The rich have done a tremendous job in gutting the middle class in this country, all via sanctions. The corporate class used the Republicans to push the agenda, and the corporate class used the democrats to let it go by. Oh, they may not be called sanctions, but that’s what they do. And the middle class is collapsing all around us.
I think we’ll start to see the collapse speed up significantly in the next few years.