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Two reasons:

- To inconvenience the institutions of the occupier just in that area (Why just there? To avoid removing their incentives to change and to avoid crippling your own companies who provide a service there. If you sanction the occupier fully, they'll double down, perceive it as an escalation, and your own companies will be significantly hurt. They'll find an alternative, and once they do, they won't need your service any longer, so you lose leverage.)

- To frustrate the local populace so that even the milder ones have additional incentives to oppose the occupying regime.

[geraneum]

Imagine if Russia occupies Ukraine by force. Following this logic, Ukrainians should now be persuaded (punished) so that they they find the will (as if they don’t already have it) to throw Russia out. The same people that we are helping and sending money and weapons to right now.