Is Vladimir Putin Really Paying Attention to Public Opposition?

In the interim, you have very bloody fighting and potentially urban warfare in, you know, cities throughout ukraine. Western officials are very fearful right now that kave could fall and that the kranian government could be decapitated. So we're at the beginning of something, not the end of something. We saw yesterday a response in russia to this that was very different from 20 14 in the crimea invasion, right? Exactly. There wasn't even really an effort on behalf of the kremlin to build that kind of support. A lot of russians were very surprised that this invasion happened, especially on the scale that we're seeing.