Putin Screwed Up and Russians Know It

Details here:

https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2018/08/moscow-has-made-unforgivable-mistake-of.html

If you do check the links in the essay, of course, be careful.

But still...there are Russians who understand what the people running their government right now have gotten them into...and who do not like the implications and consequences at all. Even if they ever liked the intentions behind those acts.