Could This Be a Different End to the War in Ukraine? @VisualPolitikEN

The war in Ukraine has disrupted Vladimir Putin's plans. But to what extent is his presidency at risk? How could this affect the war? In this new video from VisualPolitik, we bring you all the answers.

#Putin #Russia #Ukraine

[thomasjamison]

Konstantin, a Russian who left Russia at the start of the war and who hosts a very interesting youtube account, recently noted that a contemporary Russian joke goes like this:
A reporter stops a Russian citizen on the street and asks him how he thinks things are going for Ruassa:
The citizen replies 'I can't complain."

[LinkeHarryB]

How honest would polls be answered if an opinion can land you in prison?

[freetolook]

When asked about how they felt about Russia's war, Russians responded, "What war?"!
😂😂

[asrenypyatko]

As a Russian, I can tell you this video is extremely misleading when it comes to what population thinks. Polls are basically rubbish in Russia because very few people answer them sincerely due to fear. If you want to see real opinion of people from smaller cities about Putin - look at the videos of Wagner coup in Rostov. People were basically either indifferent or straight out cheering Wagner rebels. In large cities anti-war sentiment is prevalent among non-elders. Out of hundreds people I know personally only 4 support this war, two of them are my demented grandmothers. If today missile kills Putin and the war stops, way more people will celebrate it than mourn about it, I can guarantee you that.

[Polans-gd]

I recommend reading the book "Letters from Russia. Russia in 1839.” Author: Astolphe de Custine wrote, for example: 'This society of automats/robots is like half a game of chess, because one man moves all the pieces, and the invisible opponent is humanity. Everyone here moves and breathes only with the emperor's permission or at his command, so everyone is gloomy and restrained: silence presides over life and paralyzes it."
Almost 200 years have passed, and Russia and ruSSians are still the same. Nothing has changed.


“Russians are a people who hate freedom, love slavery, love shackles on their hands and feet, dirty physically and morally. Ready to crush everyone and everything at any time.” Ivan Shmelyov - Russian writer.

“Russia manages to find only humiliation everywhere” Alexander Nezvorov

“If I fall asleep and wake up in a hundred years, and someone asks me what's going on in Russia now, I'll answer: they drink and steal.” Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin - Russian writer.

[JonathanWrightZA]

A Russian I spoke to in Tbilisi in July: "We don't know who or what could come after Putin"

That's quite some existential dread

[Elongated_Muskrat]

Putin can’t fall, he never goes higher than the first floor.

[snackplissken]

As a kid, I heard a Soviet joke about a hated new leader who heard about an old peasant woman praying for his success. He goes to the old woman to ask why she isn't rooting for his downfall like everybody else. She tells him that she prayed for his predecessor's predecessor to fall and when he did, his replacement was worse. Then she prayed for his predecessor to fall and when he did his replacement was also worse. She admitted she is praying for the current guy because she's afraid his replacement will be worse still. Don't forget that Putin was the replacement for Boris Yeltsin.

[XCHGY]

Regarding the surveys in Russia:

"A Russian man convicted of criticising the Ukraine conflict in a street interview had his sentence toughened on Tuesday from five years' hard labour to five years' prison, state media reported.
Yuri Kokhovets, 38, accused Russian soldiers of shooting civilians in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha "for no reason at all" in a spontaneous interview he gave to US-funded news outlet Radio Liberty in July 2022.
He was sentenced to five years correctional labour in April 2024 for spreading "false information about the Russian army" but prosecutors appealed, asking for a tougher sentence"

[pavelkozlov]

Hello, I don't need to close my eyes and imagine. I am Russian.

Let this bloody war be cursed.
Peace to Ukraine. 🇺🇦 Freedom to Russia 🇷🇺.

[hesar]

you dont need Levada, just come to Poland and we will tell you, ruzzia is not a country, it's state of mind, just take a look on soviets in Berlin supporting Putler's aggression

[Yakiro]

The Russian bots are real active on this one

[doodlePimp]

"Imagine you were a Russian. One day somebody ask you what you think about the war. Of course you would condemn it."
Are you crazy? If I was a Russian I would be even more aware of how bad an idea it is for a Russian to publicly criticize Putin directly.

[ewokk]

The problem with such regimes is stability-instability paradox.
Imagine lone gunman taking out Putin in sudden assassination. Or even accident like the death of late Iranian president.
The various factions at Kremlin would be at each other throats immediately.
FSB, military, oligarchs, you name it.

[seanlander]

I’m drunk, living in squalor and effluent, yep that’s my imaginary Russian life.

[normm]

‘….if you come for the king, you better not miss…’

[hansschonig]

i wonder if this guy would cry like a baby when sent to the frontlines. i am sure Putin is a coward - seen that during COVID

[extremebrah]

Putin's fate will be the same as Khadafi.

[TheUnatuber]

Putin's only chance is a second Trump presidency in America. If that doesn't happen, Vladdy is fucked!

[Mr__B.]

You are living in parallel reality. Try to come to Moscow as you are with your British passport and try to protest Putin in the Red Square and let's see then for how long you live. If Russians in Russia are asked about Putin they must express their suppor of the war and the president because they want live. Just like that. It's easy to protest when toy are not there.