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Maybe at best Putin wants to degrade Ukrainian defenses without an actual occupation, while he does occupy some breakaway areas as noted before.  (I don't mean that is good at all, but it could be better than a full occupation effort.)

All our sanctions and harsh language is not going to impact Putin that I can see.

i sincerely hope the sanctions will have serious effects.  I hope that the US, and all other nations of the world, enact them to the fullest extent that we can.

Putin has been building up his reserves in other national currencies and crypto-currencies over the past several years in order to weather the coming storm.  But if the nations of the world can hit the oligarchs hard where it counts, that could fracture the Russian government.  That's probably the world's best and only hope at ending the current Russian aggression.

It's a necessary step.  We need to extricate ourselves economically from Russia, just as we need to extricate ourselves from China.  Both are critical for our future national security.

Putin's invasion of Ukraine was totally predictable.  His aggression towards Ukraine was never about NATO.  The Biden Administration had over 6 months to plan for this and did little.  The strategy to sanction Russia after the fact is obviously a failure.

It's a necessary step.  We need to extricate ourselves economically from Russia, just as we need to extricate ourselves from China.  Both will be costly but both are critical for our future national security.