it may not hurt the elites, but it _does_ slow the Russian war machine in the medium to long term. In fact, arguably one of the biggest things we've "learned"

it may not hurt the elites, but it _does_ slow the Russian war machine in the medium to long term. In fact, arguably one of the biggest things we've "learned" from the past week is that we (the west) have been _way_ too economically entwined with Russia for decades, and that is what has enabled this aggression.