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>Till the effects of sanctions negatively affect the population.
Russian population is negatively affected by sanctions for over a decade now. Problem is this:
>They were poor before the war and they are poor now, and nothing changed really.

Goal of Russian government is to isolate Russian society so it doesn't even know how bad it has in comparison to people who live in rotten west. For decades leaders of western Europe tried to pull Russia into Europe, but since 2022 they all gave up. Now entire Europe, along with Russian government itself, has single goal of isolating Russia. Literally nobody cares how Russians live.