We also progressed from annihilating countries to financially "cancelling" countries. Financial war is still better than total war

You can also ask Cuba what they think about the "new" aspect of financial cancellation, or 1920s Germany

It seems that this is a result of populist pressure, hence the qualifier 'society' and that part seems new. I think the politicians were hesitant to do this for good reasons, I assume that they didn't want to back Russia into a corner. Back Cuba or 1920s Germany into a corner fine... but Russia that is a whole different beast. There is a very Twitter mob feel about it.

You must be utterly delusional to think that the EU, US, Japan etc. are implementing these sanctions because of popular pressure and not because Russia's behaviour is an existential threat to the world order.

If it was purely populist Germany would be using the $100b they have committed for NATO defence and spent it on universally popular policies e.g. tax cuts or handouts.

Hold on. Russia just invaded its neighbour, and you think the international response is due to _Twitter_?! Like, I'm not sure what else Russia would've expected.

> There is a very Twitter mob feel about it.

Twitter and media pressure that calls for war just a bit less than Russia invading Ukraine. I bet there are many people secretly very happy about that. Often it is just plain idiocy though.

> I think the politicians were hesitant to do this for good reasons

Well yeah, sanctions are also impacting us on many levels and they're damaging future relations for decades, that's obviously not something to take lightly. But what's the other options ? Not do anything ?

> There is a very Twitter mob feel about it

We would have said that about the Treaty of Versailles too, we just didn't have twitter back then. I think people are delusional because these types of events aren't a thing in Europe for quite some time now, I bet they'd blame the "cancel culture" and say that Putin is an angel

These statements always confuse me.

Never in history has there ever been consequence-free speech or egalitarian trade and economics.

You failed to insert "woke" somewhere in your post.