thank you for joining us, you were born in russia, moved to america when you were 18 years old, you have interesting perspective on this. what are your thoughts on the sanctions the u.s. imposed on vladamir putin and the russia people and what the effect of them will actually be? uh-huh. good morning, todd and carley. thank you for having me. if we take a look at the sanctions, they certainly succeeded in hurting russian economy and citizens of russia. however, i don t think they ultimately achieved the ultimate goal of causing people to go and protest this war to stop innocent peep frel dieing and ultimately putting end to all this madness that we are witnessing. what it caused is an opposite effect we are seeing even from the recent vladamir putin