A continent-spanning economy will always have a baseline level of self sufficiency.
On the other hand, without the sanctions, Russia might have enjoyed an economic boom over the past couple of years, strengthening Putin’s hand further. Preventing that seems like an acceptable outcome for the sanctions, even if they failed to provoke an economic collapse as some Western leaders had hoped.
A continent-spanning economy will always have a baseline level of self sufficiency.
On the other hand, without the sanctions, Russia might have enjoyed an economic boom over the past couple of years, strengthening Putin’s hand further. Preventing that seems like an acceptable outcome for the sanctions, even if they failed to provoke an economic collapse as some Western leaders had hoped.