Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "'Referendums' announced after Russians lose ground | DW News" video.

nice to have a commentator on the show who is honest about the fact some something in the ballpark of half the russian population supports the war (well above half in the beginning, if it's less than half now, then only because the war ia going badly). essentially 50% of the population supports putin and the war, 10-25% oppose them, and 25-40% think it's not their place to have a political opinion.
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@letsRegulateSociopaths 99% don't want to go to prison. though the russian opposition does in fact have a very strange habit of wanting to go to prison, of doing things that can ONLY get them locked up and not achieve anything else, such as navalny and kara-murza returning to russia when they knew they would be arrested, and now they can't even communicate publically like they could in exile, so they just gave up any political power they had to become completely useless martyrs. the russian opposition at this point is so inept it's almost funny. I guess considering how weak they are, it's unsurprising that they have as little support as they do.
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