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Originally Posted by Dargo
There is no gigantic shift in the social debate, no call to lay down arms, or anything like that. On the contrary, when the 'ordinary Russian' on the street is asked about the situation in Ukraine. The tenor there is: 'It may be that there are losses, but that may also be part of a strategy we don't know about.' Of course, you have to take into account that those people do not dare to criticize openly. There are many Russians who no longer talk about politics, even with their own friends and family. The fruits of Putin's politics of fear.
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Thats not what I meant, but that the losses so far are not "felt" by the middle class in the big cities and urban areas, but the blood toll is on social outcasts from prisons and poor ethnic minorities from godforsaken places whom the population of the cities do not care much for, and does not know about. General mobilisation means that likely bigger losses will reach the families of those city middle class families that so far leave the coffin-counting to others.