> If the sanctions didn’t work before, I don’t know why they would work now.

Because these are different and harsher sanctions. That's why people are complaining more about them now, and why they might might perhaps finally work.

> I don’t have the answers,

Yeah, that's becoming abundantly clear.

> but

...you like to bloviate?

> certainly any move toward more militarization of the world is usually a bad thing.

"Every country has an army. Its own, or someone else's." (Can't recall where the quote is from, but that doesn't make it any the less true.)