maybe in some cases but not if the said country is actively engaged in military action. by allowing Putin the resources to wage war the citizens are unwittingly and now that war is raging wittingly complicit.

You'd rather we bomb them instead?

Bombing comes after you have tried starving them or preventing medical supplies getting in.

If you have further questions about these points please see what happened to the Iraqi women and children (and yes, also men). Great minds and moral leaders like Madeleine Albright[0] will provide you with a shining beacon of purifying truth.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Albright#Deaths_by_s...

Maybe punishing the innocent with sanctions is necessary, or the lesser of two evils, but it is still an injustice.

Maybe Putin thinks the injustice being visited upon the people of Ukraine is a necessary evil as well.

But now we're just arguing what evils can be justified, and what cannot.

Can we justify the inaction?

Sometimes we just have to choose one way or the other and pray it wont go too wrong.

False dichotomy.