Yes, good post that Danny.
I'm at a loss at it. I don't particularly like or dislike Russians or Ukrainians and I work with both. I hate this present spat.
Sanctions did very little in Iraq (or Libya) to affect the dictators life-style or the elite, we now know, but made every Iraqi adult of a certain age I ever met look about 10 years older than they were.
Man to man Putin is a far sharper tool than the POTUS or the PMUK combined. He and his Foreign Minister have outplayed them from the start.