Companies continue shuttering their Russian operations as the War in Ukraine drags into its third week. (AP News)

Vladimir Putin decided to invade Ukraine and cause the biggest ground war in Europe since the end of World War II and that caught the World off guard. What caught Putin off guard is the manner in which the West coalesced against Russia and its decision to invade its neighbor. The Russian people are primary sufferers of the extreme economic sanctions leveled against the Former Soviet Union which has the real possibility of reverberating around the Globe before all is said and done.