I think it's difficult for a lot of Russians to understand that the tried and true political strategy, "keep out of politics and they'll leave you alone" has be

I think it's difficult for a lot of Russians to understand that the tried and true political strategy, "keep out of politics and they'll leave you alone" has been taken off the table. It turns out that letting a criminal regime do whatever it wants might have some personal blow-back after all. Like it or not, if you are in Russia you are making a political choice to be part of this regime. You contribute to its economy and tax base and contribute, directly or indirectly, to an organization which is right now committing atrocities in Ukraine to steal their land and children and erase their history and culture. When I look at the injustices that exist in that part of the world, the plight of the well-off holidaying Ivan from Moscow or Peter ranks near the bottom of my list. What's more, the relative volume of Russians' complaints about sanctions compared to the (almost nonexistent) volume of Russians' complaints about the wide-scale torture of Ukrainian PoWs, systematic kidnapping of Ukrainian children, murder and 'filtration' of civilians, etc. reveals a disheartening reality: Russians only care about themselves. So why should we care about them? Any time or energy spent worrying about Russians is far better spent worrying about Russia's victims: Ukrainians.