(#5098) Buying goods from Russia is fueling the illegal invasion of Ukraine

      There is no way putin can keep sending troops and armaments to Ukraine if not for the help from those foreigners who buy Russian products and services. I know we were an interconnected society previous to Russian aggression in Ukraine but to keep that interconnectedness in the face of the atrocities being committed by Russian strategy is to ally oneself directly with putin. There is no middle ground here. Either you are helping putin continue to murder civilians and do other atrocious harm or you are against him. So if a nation for example had ties to Russia for necessary products, they should be or should have been in search for alternative products from somewhere else. There is no other scenario where they can just let things be and not be held in criminal disgrace.
     Without outside money, Russia cannot sustain itself for very long. It has expenses in keeping its economy running and its people in supplies. Without outside money the Russian economy would soon collapse and any thought to continuing their invasion would be impossible. The only way to stop this madness of putin quickly is to cut off the money. Western sanctions are helping to do just that but rogue countries are bypassing those sanctions. So a penalty for bypassing sanctions must be airtight in implementation. There cannot be any passes for the unethical propping up of putin in order to make a beneficial profit when murder is the cost.
     We in the west need to make them pay who help putin continue to kill innocents. It is a bloody stain on our species that murder is considered just a reasonable cost of doing business. All those who have helped putin without trying to change that help over time, should be adjudged criminally guilty of collusion in the illegalities that Russia's putin is allowing in Ukraine. Every bit of money that is illegally going to putin and every penny that he makes from those who will stubbornly not find alternative supplies for goods that don't include Russia should also be held together in the same criminal frame. Murder is not okay as a cost of doing business despite reasoning that tries to make it so.