No but it increased Putins popularity and crushed all internal opposition towards an imperialist Russia. I also carefully used the word accelerated [1] which y

No but it increased Putins popularity and crushed all internal opposition towards an imperialist Russia. I also carefully used the word accelerated [1] which you might have missed. [1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accelerate https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accelerate