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Originally Posted by peter12
Obviously, Putin is facing increasing domestic pressure to stand down.
Hundreds of Russians have been arrested over the past couple of days.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/...r-mobilisation
This whole thing is going to be messy. Years of internal propaganda preaching the racial superiority of the Russian people and the weakness of the West. It's all coming down pretty hard.
Keep in mind that Russia is a large place with major urban centres separated from each by considerable distance. Getting the critical mass to build a major national protest movement is going to be tough. |
Not to mention that Putin has been making efforts to shelter major cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg from seeing the full effects of the war and mobilization. If something is going to get organized, it has to be in those centers.
For the most part, it seems like Russians are conditioned to mind their own business. It's every man for himself. It's going to take a huge shift in their psyche to get anything going there. If or when their troops start returning home, that might be the trigger needed. There are likely going to be a lot of pissed off young men coming back.