Our sanctions are working fine! Thanks to them, not only we are strenghtening the relations between coutries that dislike the west (like 80% of the world?), but we italians are also so happy to be buying overpriced and extra polluting US liquified natural gas trasported by ships.
I also hear that this little no-russian-gas joke (ft. US-Ukranians sabotaging the nord stream) was the last drop on killing Germany's economy, where the far-right parties are currently on the rise. Sorry guys I haven't studied history, is there any analogy that can be found with this in the past?