[dunkelheit]

This won't work because a) many of the current measures mainly hurt the most westernized part of the population (i.e. those most critical of the current regime) and b) this plays perfectly into Putin's narrative that the West hates Russia and the Russian people.

[Schiendelman]

It still works. The people who know Russia is the aggressor know the truth, and eventually people less susceptible to propaganda do regain power.