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Absolutely agree and was referring to post USSR when talking about discontent. Started in the 90's but has persisted and been fed by open information in the 21st century, no?
The discontent today is actually fairly low because the economic situation has been steadily improving since the 90s. For example, the World Bank just reclassified Russia as a high income country, and the IMF forecasts that Russian economy is set to grow faster than all the western economies. This is why Putin's government has very high approval right now, people remember how bad things got in the 90s, and they've seen their lives steadily improve since then.
Interesting. The impression we get from brief news reports and no follow up is that the economy is hurting because of the sanctions. I think it's a shame that there isn't the same suffering that they are inflicting on the Ukranian people. They need to understand what their government is doing, propaganda or not. We'll have to see how it all works out.
The reality is that Russia isn't really affected by sanctions at this point because they've redirected their trade towards the global south over the past three years. The real problem is that people in the west don't seem to understand what their own governments are doing, and the fact that Ukraine is being cynically used as a proxy to fight a war with Russia. Now that the proxy war is failing, we're seeing the US starting to look for ways to end it.
I heard about the proxy war theory and it's depressing to think these people are that evil. The world is a fucked up place, no doubt.
It's not a theory, Marco Rubio has openly admitted that it's a proxy war already https://thehill.com/homenews/5179806-russia-us-proxy-war-ukraine/