Sanctions have totally failed to stop the Russian war in Ukraine

It has to be said that nothing the West has done so far, whether it be economic sanctions against Moscow or arms supplies to Kyiv have succeeded in stopping Putin from continuing to bomb and destroy Ukrainian cities and power infrastructure. It's the old story. Sanctions don't work. Why? Because whoever is being sanctioned finds ways to get round the restrictions and, in particular, finds countries who are still prepared to do business with Moscow. North Korea is heavily sanctioned for developing nuclear weapons but has it stopped Kim Jong-un's nuclear programme or driven his regime to its knees? No, absolutely not. North Korean people may be suffering but the regime is fine thank you very much. The same with Putin. The sanctions have caused problems but they have failed to make a huge difference. Russia is still trading and selling oil around the world, especially to China and India, and its economy is doing well enough to continue the war in Ukraine at full pelt. Even Trump's warning of severe consequences if the war doesn't come to an end soon is falling on stony ground. Putin doesn't care. He has built a war economy and the arms prpduction companies are doing very nicely. Sanctions sound a nice and easy way of forcing a country to behave, but they seldom ever work.