[praptak]

> You are punishing people for rolling poorly on the parental lottery.

If you accept this argument, you are letting the dictator hold his population hostage. Also the same argument applies to killing the invading soldiers.

Also it's not like Russian people are dying from hunger.

[turtledove]

No, because broad sanctions don't hurt the dictator. It won't make their country more likely to get rid of him.