The sanctions were already ineffective, but that’s neither here nor there because none of my examples involve actual, official sanctions. Most of my examples in

The sanctions were already ineffective, but that’s neither here nor there because none of my examples involve actual, official sanctions. Most of my examples involved people working around their own domestic governments. Even when it comes to Visa and MasterCard locking out Russians, that was, officially at least, purely on the initiative of those two companies rather than any formal economic sanction.