Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

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SanAndreasX said:

How long will Russians continue to tolerate this level of dysfunction and chaos?

Younger Russians, so those who mostly disagree with Putin and the war, are leaving the country in droves since the war began or sent to prisons for protesting. The older generation is getting almost all their news through state media, which is glorifying the war special military operation and Putin while demonizing both Ukraine and the west in general, and due to getting bombarded with the latter news for about 20 years now, many of them actually believe that propaganda to high degrees, too.

In other words, the Russian state needs to implode from within to have a real prospect of change. And even then right now it looks like the change could very well be for the worse, as the hardliners seem to get increasingly powerful in Moscow.