It's a common misconception to think it's Putin's war and not Russians'. There are many people who fled Russia in European cities like Berlin. How many anti-war protests conducted by Russians were there?
> Being an anti-war activist in Russia is dangerous. Rights groups say there have been more than 16,000 detentions across the country for anti-war actions.
That's 16000 as of last September, by the way. Thousands more since.
But you can go on Youtube and find people doing interviews in Russia. It's pretty clear to me that the war continues to have substantial popular support among Russians.
Is it a majority? Who knows. But it's not difficult to find people who are strong supporters.
For all those other regions on the planet, the Great game never ended and is in full swing ever after. For them the WorldWars were a colonial power internal affair, and now its "our turn to become the king of the hill of skulls". The history and injustices of 2 worldwars is just a justification to go into battle for them.
Its bleak, but our reality altering screams never penetrated that mindset.
There are more protests against the war in Ukraine now, than there were in Russia in 1915, and the Russian people eventually overthrew their czar over that.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/767/do-not-go-gentle
(Disclaimer: contains recordings from Russian police stations...)