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sarabee1995 · 26-30, F
Elessar · 26-30, M
@sarabee1995 I'm not too sure about that anymore, honestly. Their military went into Chernobyl, dwelled trenches in radioactive soil(!), and are now dying of a slow, painful and agonizing death, and this for Putin's cause. Nobody raised an eyebrow, they've just executed. His domestic support also seemed to go up, rather than down, since the beginning of the war and in spite of the sanctions (okay that you get jailed there for dissent, so the statistics/polls are certainly biased)...
ByronTheRefinedMan · 100+, M
@ozgirl512 I object! There ith a shortwave radio. I could listen, without electricity, while milking my humble pigeons at the same time.
Elessar · 26-30, M
@ozgirl512 [quote]don't forget, the average Russian has no access to anything but government news ... Once they know ...[/quote]
Only in the last few weeks at most, but don't forget Russia isn't China or North Korea (yet?), Russians could access western media just as easily as they could access their own, before this war, and even while forces were being amassed near the UA border, and on the first days/weeks of invasion. Heck, even now a lot of them use VPNs to circumvent regional restrictions, the information definitely get to there. Putin has been consistently re-elected for over 20 years, he didn't get installed yesterday. They know who he is, what he did, how he treats the opposition, and the great majority of people still support that.
I don't think this is the issue here, rather, I think that assuming the Russian people would cheer at the removal of Putin is the very same identical mistake (with parts reversed of course) that the Russians made when assuming the Ukrainians would've welcomed them with open arms after removing Zelenskyy.
Only in the last few weeks at most, but don't forget Russia isn't China or North Korea (yet?), Russians could access western media just as easily as they could access their own, before this war, and even while forces were being amassed near the UA border, and on the first days/weeks of invasion. Heck, even now a lot of them use VPNs to circumvent regional restrictions, the information definitely get to there. Putin has been consistently re-elected for over 20 years, he didn't get installed yesterday. They know who he is, what he did, how he treats the opposition, and the great majority of people still support that.
I don't think this is the issue here, rather, I think that assuming the Russian people would cheer at the removal of Putin is the very same identical mistake (with parts reversed of course) that the Russians made when assuming the Ukrainians would've welcomed them with open arms after removing Zelenskyy.