Makes me highly skeptical of any reports that say most Russians accept, believe & support Kremlin story that it’s a humanitarian denazification operation in Ukraine. Under these circumstances we do not know Russian public opinion one way or the other.https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1500458582902460420 …
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I suspect part of the issue is that in a climate of intense repression the state doesn't really know public opinion either.
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In a real sense, public opinion doesn't exist in an authoritarian regime, not like it does in a democracy. It's a black box. And Putin's paranoid so he'll fear the worst. Hence the crackdown and the goonish videos like this.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1500361732753080323 …
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This is standard propaganda and it’s hard to read that much into it either way. Putin has always concerned himself with public opinion and worked to guide it
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Putin has knowledge re the RU body count that the Russian people will soon start to piece together- a lurking shadow of the war in Afghanistan.
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