Russian men ain’t stupid. No one wants to be cannon fodder and be forced to die for something they don’t believe in.
This is hardly wwii defending their own territory from the german push inward.
New tshirt idea: I survived Putin’s Folly.
Don’t underestimate the skill of Russian propagandists though. They have been successful at convincing at least a significant portion of the Russian population that this is a necessary war, and that if they aren’t fighting in Ukraine, they’ll soon be fighting Americans outside Moscow.