> What I am most frustrated about is the broad support that Putin’s government enjoys generally from a populace that does not seem to remember where everything

> What I am most frustrated about is the broad support that Putin’s government enjoys generally from a populace that does not seem to remember where everything they rely on comes from, while enjoying their European and Turkish vacations. It's not such a broad support - when Crimea was occupied, the support was higher. It's insufficiently low today though. And the people have 24/7 propaganda coming from TVs, with many of them not very skillful with Youtube and VPN - and it's psychologically hard to withstand a lie which is repeated hundreds of times.