I think (though I'm just regurgitating something I read somewhere) that the idea behind sanctions is not to use them. If you're using them, they've failed, in a

I think (though I'm just regurgitating something I read somewhere) that the idea behind sanctions is not to use them. If you're using them, they've failed, in a sense. So the idea is not so much to "stand with Ukraine", it's to stand with whoever is next. The threat of sanctions should be enough to prevent the future use of force, but you have to be prepared to pull through when they're ignored for that to work.