https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/26/us/politics/russia-sabotage-campaign-ukraine.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/26/us/politics/russia-sabota... It's an op

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/26/us/politics/russia-sabotage-campaign-ukraine.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/26/us/politics/russia-sabota... It's an open war with Ukraine only so far. And many are not aware of the wider geopolitics of it, they don't know their countries are at war with Russia. Open attacks would scare many of those people and make them more hostile towards the Russian side. As it stands many are more neutral and Putin even has a significant number of fans in the West.