Vladimir Putin has restricted all news media within Russia to promote a false narrative of what he is calling a "peacekeeping mission" to liberate Ukraine from a government of neo-Nazis. The entire rest of the world knows that isn't true of course, but like any abuser, Putin isolates and gaslights his own people. The Russian people need to know the truth about the Ukraine invasion - they are the only ones who can probably put an end to a madman's bloody crusade. Sanctions won't change Putin's mind - he has it in his head that Russia can go it alone. He figures that they lived with sanctions during the Cold War, so why not do it again? That era is romanticized in his mind anyway. My theory is that Putin has some sort of health issue that is making him increasingly erratic, which is terrifying given how he is displaying a distorted view of global politics and seems to have little problem threatening to use nuclear weapons. It's a dire situation that probably requires something more than sanctions and well-wishes to the poor Ukrainians.