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Originally Posted by Elkyiv
This will not happen because they are cowards. They can start a protest, sure, like they did in Belarus, but ultimately, they just do not have the balls to see it through. They will always be stuck in a perpetual dictatorship.
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The people in Belarus asked for a change in regime. That's extreme. (Justified, but extreme.)
Putin doesn't need to be removed from power, he just needs to stop gambling with war.
All that would be needed is for Putin to feel that further warmongering might make him lose support in Russia. That's enough.
No extreme demands, just people marching in the streets asking for peace, letting him know that Russians are not buying his excuses for war, that they see through his endless stream of obvious false-flag operations and propaganda, that they know what he's up to.
Putin cares a lot about his popularity and his legacy. Peace marches directed at his actions would go against that.
Just peace marches in general, in Russia, directed at Russian leadership. Sometimes that stuff works, it's a lot better than doing nothing.
Plus it would be kind of hard for Putin to crack down hard on peace marches without looking really bad in front of Russians.