It Appears That Putin's War is not popular in Russia

[surada]

I don't hate Democrats. I do hate what their deep state does when it's against the Constitution and traditional courtesies that have been thoroughly pissed on by the current House Speaker who speaks for the criminal underworld, not workaday people of America as a whole. Your lust for them to have power is minor compared to their omeurta secrecy that is not in conformity with the Constitution of the United States of America. And Biden is not only confused, he's likes being pushed around by his powerful colleagues. I hold his dementia responsible for his inability to remember who he is and what is expected from a POTUS. He had a real party opening the borders because it was money in his covetous pockets, and it was a lot more expedient to extort money as POTUS than VPOTUS. He cannot face what he has made of himself and it makes decent people wanna hurl.

You still peddling conspiracy theories?

 

[beautress]

Iraq was an incompetent blunder. Iraq was crippled by two decades of war and sanctions. But, clean break strategy and the PNAC letter to Clinton demanded getting rid of Saddam. Madeline Albright was wrong.... Trump wanted our European allies to pay twice as much for natural gas and invest billions in infrastructure to receive and store US natural gas.... They executed Saddam Hussein for doing what Churchill did in 1920.

I see that you didn't read Secretary of State Madeline Albright's telling expose on Saddam Hussein the criminal leader of Iraq.

You are gravely mistaken about Churchill. He was not a man of the bloody dismembering of two-thirds of his legislative body when he took power, which is precisely what Saddam Hussein did not to mention crimes to banal to mention. Churchill endured two world wars inflicted by the likes of the Antichrist Hitler who raped his own cousin when she wasn't even barely of age.

No man is perfect, but Churchill saved his nation in WWII and was instrumental in handing a tough job to the American, General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Go ahead. Keep biting ankles of good men. You're good at it, but not according to the facts of necessity when the going got rough after London was bombed to hell and back by Hitler's fliers.

 

[Litwin]

There are multiple examples, too many to list, of ordinary and influential Russians who don't support this war. Even a Russian tennis player wrote "No War Please" on a TV camera after winning his match in Dubai.

At this point, Putin's gamble is looking like a terrible miscalculation, with the only widespread support he is receiving is from FOX News, former President Trump, Mike Pompeo, and many American conservatives. The rest of the world stands united with Ukraine.

 

[odanny]

(Just a snippet)​

Russia Has Suffered a Crushing Moral Defeat. And Russians Know It.​

By Alexey Kovalev

Mr. Kovalev is the investigations editor at Meduza, an independent Russian news outlet.

For many of us, the horror is visceral and personal. My uncle, for example, is Ukrainian and my wife’s grandmother, born in the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia, survived the Nazi occupation of Kyiv. It’s hard to find a Russian family without Ukrainian relatives and friends, husbands and wives, girlfriends and boyfriends, chess partners and colleagues. Many of them are now hiding in bomb shelters in Kyiv and Kharkiv.

They’re under attack by a Russian Army whose soldiers — young men who have spent their entire lives under Mr. Putin — look forlorn and confused. They were told by their commanders that they were going to the Ukrainian border to take part in logistical drills, only to find themselves at war. Mr. Putin seemingly dreamed of a quick victory with Russian-speaking Ukrainians welcoming their “liberators” with flowers, the Ukrainian Army surrendering en masse and the country’s leaders fleeing in fear. None of this is happening.

Instead, as the Ukrainians bravely resist the onslaught, Russians are feeling the pain of wide-ranging international sanctions and reprisals. With no European Union country accepting flights from Russia and America closing its airspace, thousands have been left scrambling in airports — while others wait in long lines at A.T.M.s as the ruble plunges. For ordinary Russians, poorer and cut off from the world, the costs of Mr. Putin’s aggression will be high.

State propaganda is baying hysterically, doing its best to rally people behind the war — even while refusing to call it that. In fact, the censorship ministry is punishing those few remaining independent media organizations, including Meduza, where I work, that dare to call Russia’s war what it is. On Tuesday, the government took Echo of Moscow and TV Rain, the last remaining independent radio station and TV channel, off the air. Demands to punish the “fifth columnists” and “traitors” — in effect those who sympathize with Ukraine — are growing louder and louder. Political repression will surely intensify.

The Kremlin would like to suggest that most Russians are unconcerned about the misery already ricocheting their way. According to a state-owned pollster, 68 percent of citizens support the war. But there’s a big caveat: The survey never mentioned war at all. Instead, it asked people whether they support what the government calls a “special military operation,” aimed among other things at “preventing a NATO base in Ukraine” and “denazification of Ukraine.” What the poll really shows is how state media dominates public opinion.

Opinion | Russia Has Suffered a Crushing Moral Defeat. And Russians Know It.

For many Russians, the invasion of Ukraine is a visceral horror.

www.nytimes.com

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/09/...on=CompanionColumn&contentCollection=Trending
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/...on=CompanionColumn&contentCollection=Trending

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

The Kremlin would like to suggest that most Russians are unconcerned about the misery already ricocheting their way. According to a state-owned pollster, 68 percent of citizens support the war. But there’s a big caveat: The survey never mentioned war at all. Instead, it asked people whether they support what the government calls a “special military operation,” aimed among other things at “preventing a NATO base in Ukraine” and “denazification of Ukraine.” What the poll really shows is how state media dominates public opinion.

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Hmmmmmm............
Sounds exactly like something the Democrats would be doing in the USA.

Oh wait..........they ARE!!!