The mood in Russia changes due to the partial mobilization. This can be seen, among other things, by the demonstrations in the country, by the flight of many men from the recruitment, but also in surveys a turnaround can be seen: “The acceptance of politics in Russia and that of the president has disappeared before the first since the beginning of the war,” said Wolfgang Müller, historian of Eastern Europe and professor of Russian history at the University of Vienna in the krone.tv interview with Jana Pasching.
Putin’s acceptance rates have fallen from 80 percent to 70 percent. “That still seems high by Western standards.” However, a large proportion of the votes must be cut off here, “because many people, once asked, stop expressing their own opinions for fear of repression.”
The threat of a world war from Russia must be taken seriously. “But we also have to recognize that they are part of psychological warfare,” Müller says. Militarily, using nuclear weapons would do nothing for Russia. “The front is very far apart, there are no large concentrations of groups that can be knocked out with a nuclear attack.” The game would also be politically risky, as even those states that were neutral or benevolent towards Russia in the end like China and India would be very strongly repelled. “It would break a taboo unlike anything world history has known since 1945.”
The fact that the sham referees have now arrived is due to the fact that Russia feared losing further territories already conquered to the Ukrainian defenders. “President Putin has locked himself in a position and now says he no longer wants to give up these areas.” However, it is clear that the result of the referendum has nothing to do with the opinion of the population in the occupied territories. “There are polls that were conducted before the war started and show that support for the union in the south was at most eight percent.”
You can see the entire interview with Eastern European historian Wolfgang Müller in the video above.
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