They hurt all of Russia’s trading partners and forced oligarchs to keep their money in Russia. It is helping them far more in terms of boosting the costs they get for their natural resources which is one of the major things the US sought to prevent. The overall pivot to Asia by all of Washington’s rivals is very apparent.

Sanctions only partially work when you’re able to enforce them and starve out a population that is small enough to be isolated, but ultimately it forces them to form new relationships with one another that were made impossible by imperialism. Russia had ten years to prepare for sanctions and they have turned lemons into lemonade. What the sanctions have really damaged is European industrial capacity to compete with America. They are even talking about trying to shunt to them the burden of funding the NATO military adventurism.

Mindlessly cheering on besieging a foreign nation after we couped their neighbor to install nazis and started a civil war, it is just stupid and sadistic. It isn’t helping anyone in the west other than military contractors and financiers. You have lost grip of reality. Racism is basically a mental version of having brain lesions, like being a sociopath.