Visitors enjoy the ice rink in Red Square at the Moscow GUM State Department store with the Spasskaya with Tower, left, and the Kremlin Wall in Moscow, Russia, late Monday, Feb. 14, 2022. While the U.S. warns that Russia could invade Ukraine any day, the drumbeat of war is all but unheard in Moscow, where political experts and ordinary people alike don't expect President Vladimir Putin to launch an attack on the ex-Soviet neighbor. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
AP: Russians scoff at Western fears of Ukraine invasion
MOSCOW (AP) — While the U.S. warns that Russia could invade Ukraine any day, the drumbeat of war is all but unheard in Moscow, where pundits and ordinary people alike don’t expect President Vladimir Putin to launch an attack on its ex-Soviet neighbor.
The Kremlin has cast the U.S. warnings of an imminent attack as “hysteria” and “madness,” and many Russians believe that Washington is deliberately stoking panic and fomenting tensions to trigger a conflict for domestic reasons.
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WNU Editor: Russians are concerned about war and the consequences that it may bring. And there is a consensus that a Ukraine war will happen one day. But as long as the reservists are not being called-in, most Russians are not going to lose any sleep.
Here is a good poll summary on what Russians are thinking right now ..... Polls show Russian public opinion united on Ukraine (BNE Intellinews).
3 comments:
Gee, I wonder if the entire Russian invasion narrative was fabricated by the Biden Admin.
I mean, they REALLY needed a win given the disaster that is the Biden *residency. Why not just make one up?
how loony can one get?
130,000 troops encircling Ukraine and that is Biden's doing. wow.
The Russian military build up is not anyone's imagination. Whether its purpose is for invasion, intimidation, a bluff to force a deal, or to provoke a crisis so Putin can examine Western resolve is up for debate until the guns start firing. Even if Putin doesn't invade, it's entirely plausible that it might have been his intention until he saw enough Western resolve that increased the perceived cost for such for him to stand down.
What's more interesting is WNU's belief there is a Russian consensus that war with Ukraine is inevitable even if the time for it is not now. That seems to be very different than what he was saying only a few weeks ago.
Chris
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