What we need are more sanctions!
Because nakedly playing into the 500 year-old paranoia of Russians that the western powers are secretly in a cabal to bring them down at every turn, and deny them their “place in the sun”, will work out sooooo well.
Putin DEPENDS on these things in order for him to use the imagery to keep the low-info Ruskie on his team.
Those people have no working history of democracy to even realize how under the boot of dictators they still are. So the worse it gets there = the more they will be on team Putin.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner!