Sanctions' Economic Bite Tests Russian Faith In Kremlin War Narrative - TRMS - Ali Velshi - MSNBC

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2. I Think the Guest Overestimates the Pro-Putin Segmant of the Russian Population

And, conversely, underestimates the strength of the anti-Putin Russian resistance. He also underestimates the strength of good, old fashioned common sense. As a previous poster said, why would there be such crippling sanctions on Russia if Putin were doing a humanitarian operation there, or saving ethnic Russians from genocide? Even uneducated people have some street smarts, and are able to put two and two together. Heck - the two countries are next door neighbors, and many Russians have Ukrainian friends and relatives - and so, the true narrative of the war has probably gotten through to many of them.