I am sorry but this is just stupid. The greatest effect of the sanctions so far was increasing influence of Putin among general population.
And this was expected.
Also the sanctions don't weaken military power of Russia unless you expect this war to last for years. They sure make people poorer - but this serves only as an incentive to join the army.
> This shows that the sanctions are still too weak.
It shows that the approach is ineffective.
How exactly sanctions are supposed to work in totalitarian society?
You obviously have no idea what the life here is. Maybe you should come and see for yourself :)
> But Putin has too many supporters and they only realize what's going on when they can't maintain their standard of living.
Again, this just doesn't work. You look at this from standpoint of well-off democratic society.
This is not the case. The core of Putin supporters are poor people. These are who go to war, join army on contract, work as the police and such. They already don't have high standards of living and reducing it further won't "make them see". They will just believe that the West is out to get them.
Look at North Korea, look at Iran and how wonderfully sanctions worked there and "made people see".
In fact the effect of some of the sanctions is the opposite - e.g. blocking payment systems makes it harder to use international services which means people have less access to information. Before the war I planned to run a public Mastodon node for Moscow. Sanctions made it prohibitively expensive for me. Basically they just hand Putin more control and influence over the Internet.