The socialite daughter of Putin's spokesman complains US sanctions are 'unfair' but thinks they won't make a difference

Maria Snegovaya, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, said the main goal of US sanctions at this point is not so much to bring about that elite split but to "make the Kremlin run out of resources and show to elites in other autocratic states what happens if they grossly violate the international rules."

Snegovaya suspects that the children of Russia's political elites, many of whom have spent a good deal of time traveling and living abroad, probably do prefer the cultural and democratic values they encountered elsewhere.

"I think that's why the original responses may be antiwar. But then, because they remain the children of Putin's elites, they remain loyal and compliant with Putin's policies," she said. After Peskova posted her initial response to the invasion, "She quickly deleted it, probably because her father told her, 'Hey, what the hell are you doing?'"

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