Quote Originally Posted by goats View Post
Supporting the liberation? I reckon as more and more normal Russians get wind of what’s really going on, the tide will hopefully turn.
What Russian state media says or who they interview on the streets means little as we all know it’s propaganda guff. Plenty of Russian kids will be coming home in body bags if they decide to liberate Kyiv too. Some news channel was showing dead Russian soldiers lying on the roads around the city last night….
Would be great to know the feeling on the 'Russian street' . I share your optimism, and am inclined to see the small acts of dissent as cracks in the dam. Just waiting for the dam to burst and the Russians to oust putin.

Do have a nagging doubt mind that maybe putin has enough support, and has managed to stitch up state institutions to such a degree that he can just keep pushing on. The Russian military seem to place zero value on the lives of their soldiers. All logic suggests that these losses have to hurt him, but maybe they won't.