What in your view would be appropriate punishment?
I never said punishment was appropriate.
you ‘punish’ small unimportant states who cannot fight back.
you do not ‘punish’ countries capable of destroying you, unless you wish to create the economic conditions that will lead to rise of leaders that will advocate that,
not that it is clear to me that the theft of russian reserves and sanctions will hurt russia more than they hurt the USD.
I will observe that I have not seen TV news in decades, so it may be I haven’t gotten the ‘proper’ perspective.