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Originally Posted by Robo
I feel this war is going to backfire on Putin so many people in Russia do not want this war Including soldiers
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The only way this can backfire on him is if his own armed forces mutiny against him. Super longshot. (It's happened before in Russia, to Nicolas II in 1917, but that was in a milieu of decades of open hostility to the tsar. Even before 1917, the tsar's interior minister Stolypin was assassinated in Kyiv, incidentally).
Putin basically doesn't give a s*** about anyone or anything now except his crazed project.
He doesn't care for popular opinion at home or abroad. He can put to rest any dissent at home. No one else in the world will militarily challenge him and sanctions don't touch him (some assess that he is in fact the richest man alive). He doesn't care about the economy, he is insulated. You might even go so far as to say he doesn't care about Russia, like so many maniacal dictators of the past. He has power, he has ambition, and he's going to see how far he can push it before he leaves this mortal coil.