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Polls show most Russians are backing Putin

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/04/russia-appears...

Are polls trustworthy either way at this point? People are getting jailed for showing up to protest at all. Answering ‘No’ or abstaining from participation just seems like you’re signing yourself up for a trip to the gulag.

Remember when the majority of Americans supported a War in Iraq?

It's easy to build domestic support for almost any war in the early days. It's the long hard reality of war that turns people against it.

I think Putin has some elaborate misinformation most of the country believes, like how we had lied about WMDs.

Yeah. And then 8 years later when it becomes pretty clear Iraq/Ukraine doesn’t want you there, it’s hard to keep the populace misinformed.

They're probably pretty accurate, yes. Not that I agree with any of it; but Putin has a ton of "justifications" for what's happening in Ukraine right now. The main one being that the US & West are threatening Russia's entire existence via NATO expansion.

If most of the media around you is state-sanctioned and pro-Putin, it's super easy to go along with Putin's justifications.

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