Don’t the 1/4 to 1/2 million mostly educated Russians you mentioned represent the ones who left before the new mobilization. It has been anywhere from 500 to 800 thousand more since then.
“Don’t the 1/4 to 1/2 million mostly educated Russians you mentioned represent the ones who left before the new mobilization. It has been anywhere from 500 to 800 thousand more since then.”
That’s roughly 1 million Russians who hate Putin and who the Neocons were counting on to overthrow Putin - so I suspect Putin is happy to see them gone.