Is this a joke? Putin is wildly popular because he 'stands up to the west' and had presided over economic prosperity. He got away with blowing up four apartmen

Is this a joke? Putin is wildly popular because he 'stands up to the west' and had presided over economic prosperity. He got away with blowing up four apartment buildings, with plain-as-day evidence showing the bombings were conducted by the FSB. The population didn't care. They didn't care when he went around assassinating people outside the country. Didn't care when he invaded Crimea. Chicken in the pot, car in the driveway. There wasn't any "anti-war" sentiment until the sanctions started kicking in. Now that the ruble is worth less than toilet paper and they can't watch Netflix, they're willing to stand up to him? Welcome to the cost of your country shitting all over the rest of the world for two decades. Hope y'all enjoy being sanctioned into the stone ages.