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Boycotting Russian vodka won’t do much, experts say, but here’s what may

“A lot of this effort, I don’t want to say is wasted because it gives people a good, patriotic feeling, but most of this is not going to make much of an economic dent in Russia,” Jon Pevehouse, a UW-Madison professor focusing on international political economy, said. “To do that you’re going to have to turn off the gas and oil spigot, and that’s something that the Biden administration has not suggested it will do anytime soon.”