how traditional international pressure tactics work on countries that are more closed systems because as an authoritarian leader, vladimir putin does not have to deal with regular input unless things reach a much higher threshold for the breaking of his own power base? yeah, we re of course in a little uncharted territory here. we ve never really had a situation where, at least in the last decades where major power of this sort carried out such a frontal and obviously completely unjustified assault on a neighboring country in this way. and we ve never been in the situation where there has been this kind of globalized sanction effort designed to destigmatize the attacking aggression and make confrontation more difficult. there are layers on this war, the battle field, the economy, and the layer in russian public opinion and the second and third layers get harder and harder to