Whatever a person's stance on ongoing political events or active conflicts, punishing them en masse for choosing to be born on the wrong side of an arbitrary border is nonsensical.
(Disclaimer: I'm a Russian émigré, not in the West myself but have friends there.)
And that's just USA.
What is "historically" supposed to mean here?
Of course we do. We regularly sanction countries in ways which are designed to pressure the civilian population into overthrowing their government.