Until the West is happy with how this ends billions of capital are cut off from Russia and it's place on the mostly economic world stage will dwindle as it lose

Until the West is happy with how this ends billions of capital are cut off from Russia and it's place on the mostly economic world stage will dwindle as it loses trade deals from companies and countries being unwilling to work with it. Stopping the sanctions to pretect the average Russian would be like refusing arms to Ukraine to protect Russian soldiers. While technically that would do that you are sending a very different message but taking that action. A country is a collection of natural resources and people. Unfortunately that means punishing a country will nearly always punish the people in it. That doesn't mean it is wrong to do so. Also Putin isn't invincible and it isn't just ordinary citizens hurt by this. After all if the rich didn't care if they were worth $10m or $100m the world would not look like it does today.