Let's use a thought experiment. You are the neighborhood's mechanic, and you do small jobs for everybody - bikes, cars, trailers. Now, your next door neighbor has been throwing dog shit on your lawn, started kicking down your mailbox in the morning, set fire to your hedge during the night.

So you say, hey, asshole, I'm not fixing your bikes anymore. In fact, you want people to acknowledge what an asshole your neighbor is when you fix their bikes. But then, nigma1337 comes along, and says, "bikes don't have anything to do with your dispute, you should still fix his bikes, and I don't want to acknowledge anything!", and that's just absurd, man.

Don't want that? Write your own stuff from scratch and don't think about what's happening in the world.

You're currently demanding the world change to play to your whims. That's not how this works.

Trade is obvious, but sports, visas, communication and software are also used.

I think even most trade sanction are bad, it leads to more escalation.

"When trade stops war begins" it is said.