Broad sanctions have more purposes than the 2 primary ones (limit funds available for war and make life harder for leaders). Sanctions of the kind we see now w

Broad sanctions have more purposes than the 2 primary ones (limit funds available for war and make life harder for leaders). Sanctions of the kind we see now will, not only as an unfortunate side effect, for example - disproportionately cause working age and educated people to leave the country causing brain drain and furthering the demographic crisis - lowering the risk/reward threshold for ordinary people to protest the regime. People with somewhat comfortable lives might not risk prison to protest the war. People who can’t eat or who lost their life savings in a year might. I agree that when consumer brands boycott Russia it’s likely mostly optics and fear of consumer boycott. Not much can be done about that. It just happens to align with and further the sanctions. It’s important that Russians are given international news, however. Cutting communications seems counter productive.