Could the Sanctions Stop the War?

adam: Could these sanctions directly affect puton's prosecution of this war? could they make it too costly for him to continue this invasion and end the war early? Am, if we're asking whether the sanctions could stop the military offensive and halt the campaign due to shortages of some kind or not. A i think that that's very unlikely. They have enough, surely enough equipment stock piled to carry this through. The escalation of the violence on the battlefield, which is such a herrific a reality in the current moment, is independent of this problem. In so far as the sanctions have a logic beyond the punitive and beyond the need to simply show our consistency from the west, which is