This makes it much easier for Putin to install this parallel reality.
Russians are not stupid, this is a textbook example of a modern dictatorship.
Even if Putin goes away, it might not make Russia better: Putin may be the smartest guy in the room right now, unfortunately.
Those are not the russian people, they are just going to make noise like a lot of noise we see on the internet.
And about logic, more then one Zed was complaining that Ukraine hitting a military shit outside the SMO zone defined but Puttin is terrorism but when Ruzzia hits a power station or civilian building it is not terrorism because the target is inside the SMO. No good Russian popped in the discussion to say he disagress with this point, my guess this is how was presented on Ruzzian media and how any good Zed will repeat it even if the logic is unnatural.
The mods there are 100% KGB guys. You will get banned if you engaged with them, so better don't or make some other account, those assholes will troll your ancient comments and mass report you to silence you.
Since you said you are not following the war let me make a summary
Ruzzia is attacking and Ukraine is defending, the attacks are done with either a column of vehicles or motorcycles/ATV , this vehicles wither hit mines, get blow up by artillery or FPB drones, then the soldiers are picked up with FPV drones. There is a ton of FPV and surveillance drones videos of Ruzzian loses and almost nothing from the other side (but the Zeds are sure that Russia is not publishing the videos they have). Drones are used to also spot logistic of Ruzzians and those trucks/depos are blown up daily, there is also videos of anti air stuff getting destroyed a lot this last month. So Ruzzia is in a despreate attack mode, the soldiers have bad logistic support and they are sacrificed for microscopic gains. The Zeds seem to bet on Trump winning and offering Putin a favorable peace deal. They also hope N Korea will send them more soldiers and ammo to fight, since Putin is too coward to mobilize the people in the big cities.
However, it seems a lot of them are in the US, influenced by the MAGA camp, and apparently unable to discern reality from fiction. (I'm not making a political statement, just an observation.)