>Do the sanctions actually hurt Putin, or are we hurting ourselves and the everyday Russian for nothing? This conversation will go nowhere unless you define "h

>Do the sanctions actually hurt Putin, or are we hurting ourselves and the everyday Russian for nothing? This conversation will go nowhere unless you define "hurting ourselves" vs "hurting everyday Russians" in actual definable terms. What would you say is evidence that would support that we are only hurting ourselves, and what evidence would distinguish that from the view that sanctions hurt "everyday Russians"? > for nothing? Also this is a separate point. Whether sanctions work or they don't, there is the separate point of whether sanctions _work_. Do they work? What evidence is there for that?