I certainly sympathise much with that call, given the west is basically saying now -- we'll put in sactions, hopefully in a few months/years Russians will noti

I certainly sympathise much with that call, given the west is basically saying now -- we'll put in sactions, hopefully in a few months/years Russians will notice, in the meantime lets Russians bomb and occupy Ukraine. And to be honest it is not clear if the west can do anything that wouldn't lead to a direct confrontation with Russia and therefore nuclear war. But in the same time you'd hope in the modern world there would be ways to put real pressure now on a rogue state behaving insanely. It's not clear if SWIFT is an effective measure or not, but certainly prohibiting the oil/gas imports is -- the west just considers it too costly for them -- I guess it makes sense, they are not dying under the bombs, Ukrainians are.