Are the chances the oligarchs are going to keep bowing down, especially given the signals . So it doesnt matter who owns it. Youre not going to get putin. You see my point. I think there are two positive possible outcomes to sanctions, in addition to a range of negatives but lets talk about positive. Positive hospital outcomes to sanctions. One is that we will set them against each other. I would imagine that the u. S. Government and talking about sanctions thought this was a positive thing. Instead of having stable, unified leadership, why dont we start it up and see what happens . So there is that, that it will decrease the stability of putins hold on power. I think that that is regarded by those governments that have gone through with the sanctions as positive. Theres also a second, maybe this is just a fanciful positive outcome, in the book i talk a lot about the ideas of the transition from authoritarian to democratic regime and how you need to great and incentives for the rule of