Posted on 12/02/2022 12:34:58 PM PST by Sunsong
"Opposition among the Russian population to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine is at its highest level, according to one survey.
"The poll by the private survey agencies Russian Field and Chronicles has given a snapshot of public opinion about what the Kremlin dubs a "special military operation" which is at odds with official Russian government polls...
"...The results found that Russian support for the war "continues to fall" and had reached "a historic minimum." It said that the declared support for the war was just over a half, or 51 percent, compared with 55 percent in July and a high of 66 percent in April."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Military Operation in Ukraine on December 1, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRUyIKTka9c
All the Russians have to do is get rid of PUTIN and the war will end.
...with a quick Russian victory as the rest of the leadership there is getting tired of the very slow pace.
No legitimacy in this picture at all, poll is total BS.
Casualties are piling up - now at a rate of nearly as many the Soviet Union lost in a decade in Afghanistan (15,000) every six weeks or so.
Another wave of mobilization seems likely for next month, which is sure to entertain the public.
There may be some Russian gains as the main force of mobniks gets thrown into combat in a month or two, but then there are likely going to be some more humiliating battlefield losses as well - and mountains of more dead Russians.
All while economic conditions continue to deteriorate.
When logistics to Crimea are cut, the scale of this disaster will be unavoidable to notice for the Russian public.
Putin’s last Winter in power.
Who will turn on him? Ramzan Kadyrov gets billions from Putin. So Putin gets the Chechens to fight for him. Others in Putin's inner circle are financially secure. Putin paid them well. If they want out, they're dead. It's like being in the Mafia.
“ It’s like being in the Mafia.”
I think it is actually Mafia.
Putin has run with Mafia since he was a teenager in St. Petersburg. The guy they call Putin’s “second father” (Anatoly Rakhlin), his Judo/Sambo coach, was a lifelong mafiosi. He had written on his tombstone “I may be dead, but the Mafia is immortal”.
Many of Putin’s inner circle are his buddies from the St. Petersburg Mafia, including Prigozhin (“Putin”s chef”) who runs the Wagner Group and Internet Research Agency. He is a convicted felon, who served ten years in prison.
Thanks for the info.
I hear that putin isn’t doing well physically either. That may affect his calculations too...and not in a good way
Putin is seventy years old now, and is costing everyone in Russia a fortune.
He can’t fix it, and will continue to make it worse, until he is taken out.
He managed to get a super hold on power, but surely some in the power structure can see he’s not serving russia now, it’s becoming recognized as a terrorist state
I hope change brings a leader who loves the russian people as well as the country
It is hard to find a good politician anywhere, and it is going to be especially hard in Russia, with such an embedded culture of corruption.
“Every day Putin continues this war, Russia becomes weaker, and it will take years - decades - to repair. Putin has not had a single victory. He will go down in history as one of the worst leaders of a state in modern times.”
~ @dagbladet
Unfortunately, the most competent actor for Russia I have observed in all this is that guy who runs Wagner, Prixxxxxxx (don’t know how to spell). He seems to make even criminals recruited out of prison function. God help us if he ends up in charge.
LOL Meme of the The typical Putinist
Yes, I agree he is brutal and cruel
The “globohomos” support Putin.Putin is as Globo-Homo as they get. He looks like one of Schwab's young leaders, same as Justine Treudeau, and Christina Frredland
May it be so!
“What will happen inside the Russian Federation after the “elections”?
Putin’s regime will turn to terror to “cement” Putin’s regime of permanent power.
Most likely, this is Putin’s last election. Further, he will prolong his rule by other means.
🔹 The election will record more than 80% of the vote for Putin. In the status of a non-alternative leader, he will claim lifetime power.
🔹 The next presidential election will either be canceled or held as a referendum with a single candidate. The proclamation of Putin’s special status as a “national leader” cannot be ruled out.
🔹 Political activity in the Russian Federation will be minimized. Putin will further rely on fear and obedience.
🔹 Having become the sole ruler, Putin will need the population not as a carrier of votes but as a resource to achieve his goals.
🔹 Any attempts at resistance will be harshly repressed. Dissenters will be declared “enemies of the people.” The punitive apparatus will be strengthened and empowered.
🔹 Putin’s power will be held on bayonets and truncheons. The Interior Ministry, National Guard, and special services will have new opportunities to control every Russian - virtually every action of a person will be recorded.
🔹 The police and the National Guard will actively recruit war veterans. Everything they did in the war, they will also do in relation to the Russian population.
🔹 The practice of punishment will be expanded not for actions but for the potential of actions: by denunciations, by monitoring social networks, for “preventive purposes.” The FSIN will become one of the most influential agencies in Russia.
🔹 The Federal Penitentiary Service will expand the possibilities of “reception” of Russian citizens. It will “sort” the sharply increased number of prisoners. The political ones will sit in harsh conditions. The rest will be sent to war or forced labor.
🔹 The FSIN reports directly to the president. In the long term, the Service will become an important pillar of Putin’s personal power and an instrument of his defense against attempts to take away or limit that power.
🔹 A “Gulag 2.0” system will be created. The relevant informational and organizational work is already underway. Ideas for reviving the Gulag are already being discussed on television, and camps locations are being selected (Shoigu’s “five Siberian cities” are nothing else but camps upkeep infrastructure). The creation of a “digital Gulag” will be dramatically accelerated.
🔹 The real Gulag is for Russians potentially dangerous to the regime. For the rest - a “digital Gulag.”
🔹 The authorities have access to the biometric data of the population, to the records of all surveillance cameras, are working on turning Gosuslugi digital platform into an instrument of total surveillance, and are planning to introduce a “digital ruble,” any movement of which will be monitored.
🔹 Denunciations, inspections, harassment, and total control will become the norm. The approach of “denounce, or they will denounce you!” will be actively implemented in labor collectives, households, and informal groups.
🔹 Any initiative or activity will be suppressed and punished.
🔹 The country will “close” itself. External contacts will be sharply reduced. In the future - the introduction of exit visas. Everyone will be forced to live the way the authorities want. Russia will become similar to Iran and North Korea.
🔹 Adherence to “traditional values” will become obligatory. The authorities will control even the personal lives of Russians.
🔹 The circle of officially persecuted citizens will expand. After LGBT and political opposition, any other category can fall under repression - ethnic Ukrainians, Jews, Krishnaites, gamers, and other “non-traditional” categories.
🔹 The cult of Putin will become even more obsessive: portraits on streets and buildings, studies of his speeches in schools and universities, obligatory quotations in the press, and public oaths of allegiance to the “national leader.”
~ Anton Gerashchenko
Be it Ever so Humble!!!
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