[littlestymaar]

> How about real sanctions on autocrats, their cronies, families and businesses? Sanction oligarchs, sanction businesses that are main source of income for autocrats etc.

Sure, but these have a limited reach and they are usually being done very early in the sanction process. But once the targets have no more estate in the Western world, there is not much you can do.

> Maybe not, but they cripple country development and leave autocrats with less resources for a future actions.

But that's a really limited success at the cost of hundreds of lives, which makes it morally very difficult to justify.