"Half of the russia thinks that they are at full fledge war with US, EU and rest of west."
Are you sure about those numbers? It sounds a bit like a strawman argument to me.
Are you sure about those numbers? It sounds a bit like a strawman argument to me.
Younger more educated people are more immune ( although equally passive and "stoic" ) but the vast majority believes what Kremlin says ( with varying degrees ).
But it's not "magic", with 20+ years of constant propaganda in pretty much every TV channel every population would believe the same. Do not underestimate the sophistication and the level they can shape the minds of their people. The Internet was a new "challenge" but it's mostly under their control although not at the level they control TV and every newspaper.
Also, the "story/reality" they spread in Africa, most Asia and South America is completely is completely different to the one they spread on the West. China does something similar.
To my knowledge in the West their low effort blatant lies doesn't get much traction, but the way they feed the disenfranchised, contrarians and "influencers" fostering discontent has been effective. Don't know about TikTok.
Most people hardly understand the nuances between "war", "military operation" or "proxy war".
For 8 years it wasn't called a war, so what?
It just always amuses me what the same people who cry about a war which isn't called a war completely ignore previous eight years when it was called a war everywhere... except officially it was ATO.
Like, come on.
https://mobile.twitter.com/nastasiaKlimash/status/1575649514...
(This is just one example across many I've seen since February)
It might only surprise people, who can't quite wrap their heads around the fact that other people are individuals with their own opinions, regardless of geography.
I just don't really understand why would one assume that such near-to-margin-of-error numbers could be indicative of anything other than an obvious fact that Russia isn't 100% homogenous (duh!).