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My personal opinion is that Putin has made a critical strategic mistake.
I foresee:
The Russian's do have allies though, in particular China. The leaders of both countries were seen sitting together at the Olympics. And China has failed to condemn the invasion. Why? Because they want to eventually invade Taiwan, and it would look highly hypocritical if they condemned Russia for doing something similar.
I do not blame many of the Russian people for a pro-Putin belief. They have had a whole lifetime of brainwashing from a state controlled press, rewiring their brains with a mass hypnosis. There are no free elections, with his opponents mysteriously being poisoned and then jailed on trumped up charges. No one is allowed to protest without a heavy handed police force, and draconian criminal charges that could ruin their futures.
Russia is just like North Korea, although a less extreme version. The citizens will remain impoverished, living a substandard lifestyle because of the actions of Putin and his cronies.
There needs to become a tipping point in the volume of protesters so that they become emboldened, leading to the more timid expressing their views.
I foresee:
- Considerable public unrest for going to war with their friendly neighbour
- His oligarchs will be pissed at losing some of their freedoms and wealth
- Dead Russian soldiers coming back in bodybags, leading to a backlash of public opinion
- A prolonged protracted bloody war with their "friends"
- Isolation from sports
- A badly damaged economy with high inflation, lack of access to many goods, increased poverty
- A decline of Russia's position in the world due to a collapse of GDP
- Pariah status worldwide
- Increased oppression from within to contain dissent
The Russian's do have allies though, in particular China. The leaders of both countries were seen sitting together at the Olympics. And China has failed to condemn the invasion. Why? Because they want to eventually invade Taiwan, and it would look highly hypocritical if they condemned Russia for doing something similar.
I do not blame many of the Russian people for a pro-Putin belief. They have had a whole lifetime of brainwashing from a state controlled press, rewiring their brains with a mass hypnosis. There are no free elections, with his opponents mysteriously being poisoned and then jailed on trumped up charges. No one is allowed to protest without a heavy handed police force, and draconian criminal charges that could ruin their futures.
Russia is just like North Korea, although a less extreme version. The citizens will remain impoverished, living a substandard lifestyle because of the actions of Putin and his cronies.
There needs to become a tipping point in the volume of protesters so that they become emboldened, leading to the more timid expressing their views.