We the asians, middle easterns, south americans and africans who have seen so much western propanganda shouldnt believe this media crap so easily there was time when taliban was best friend defeating ussr, saddam was villain and many other cases. Right now putin is hitler figure for the west.
Saying that russians fleeing and trending of breaking arms. This has been case with all countries during wars people try to flee their country to avoid conscription.
You think all russians are coward?
I have seen these protests or sort of here in pak when cat food was banned only then burgers of dha protested. So most probably higher middle to higher classes are protesting in saint Petersburg
It's not about who's breaking their arms and who's buying their ticket out of Russia. This is about general attitude regarding this war.
First of all, have you ever wondered why Russia only mobilise 300,000 troops, why not 500,000, why not 1,000,000? They have around 3 million people they can mobilise in this scope, everyone had military experience within the last 4 years, why only 300,000? That's because 300,000 is roughly the entirety of the Russian troop in Ukraine right now. Mobilising 300,000 troop would not change anything, they are just going to rotate the existing troop in Ukraine, which means they are just providing a different set of punching bags in Ukraine. Which mean sometime down the road, they will ask for more.
That mean for them to do this, they are not winning as much as they claim, people is start asking question why because most people aren't stupid, you said you were winning, then why you need to mobilise, and when you start wondering if they are lying to you on this, you start wondering what else were they lying to you about. And that's when things get personal.
War is fun to watch on TV but as a person who actually fought in 2. I can tell you fighting a war is nothing but fun. And when you start realise they are lying to you about this, now what can they lie to you that more concerning to you? That is the impact.
as for whether or not Russian support the war, sure, we have idiots aboard support this war on Russia, so you can guarantee that there are Russian within Russia who support this war and being energized to fight, but then those people are mostly in the lower class and living in rural area, middle class can think and that's what they are doing, and Russia have a lot of middle class than they have grassroot.
A dictatorship and citizen who think does not really go hand in hand together.
