Sanctions won’t do any good at all. Putin already insulated himself from some of the effects, and the world will find a way to work around them and continue business with Russia.
We should have done two things — continued with our own energy independence, and ramped up exports to cripple Russia’s energy industry (effectively wiping out their cash cow), and sold a crap load of arms to Ukraine and eastern Europe.
Don’t you think it is about to come back to Americas?