Getting ahead of the story basically, any Russian who has anti western rhetoric has nothing to do with the insane sanctions. We all know that sanctions just make people do democratic revolutions in their own nations because they'll blame their own leaders!
I think that lie might have worked 100 years ago when most people were either illiterate or had meager access to news, but now everyone's got the economic policies of the entire world presented in real time. All it takes for a regular Russian to allocate blame is 10 seconds on Google searching "why is the McDonalds closed?" Because they proudly exclaim the sanctions, somehow thinking they're humanitarian.
Getting ahead of the story basically, any Russian who has anti western rhetoric has nothing to do with the insane sanctions. We all know that sanctions just make people do democratic revolutions in their own nations because they'll blame their own leaders!
I think that lie might have worked 100 years ago when most people were either illiterate or had meager access to news, but now everyone's got the economic policies of the entire world presented in real time. All it takes for a regular Russian to allocate blame is 10 seconds on Google searching "why is the McDonalds closed?" Because they proudly exclaim the sanctions, somehow thinking they're humanitarian.