Putin's entourage already admits that neither they nor Putin expected such a unity of states for Russia's open full-scale aggression against Ukraine and such powerful and hitherto unprecedented international sanctions imposed on Russia. This shocks them and puts them in a blind alley, from which they no longer see a way out, but they tell the public that everything was thought out and planned in advance, since other words will lead to discontent among the people inside Russia. After just a few weeks of these sanctions, which continue to intensify, we see how much worse life in Russia. And this is just the beginning. Therefore, the effect of these sanctions this time will be greater. We will be able to compare how Russians will live in six months or a year. According to a recent poll, about 82 percent of Russians support Putin in his attack on Ukraine and massacres of civilians. Let's see what they say by the end of this year.
I do not think that they are feeling any insecurity about the situation though. Maybe they were shocked that we were in a unity against Russia, and put sanctions and everyone went crazy but at the same time we are talking about a situation where Russia is not doing bad economically.
Even after Bucha, people are still buying gas and petrol and whatever they need from Russia, this is 2022 and there is a massacre, even calling it genocide, going in Ukraine right now and nobody really stops working with them. Sanctions do not work because people are still dealing with them, which is proof that Russia is still doing fine because they are capable of selling things to Europe right now.
