Apparently Putin’s landslide victory means Russian morale is low.
Other bangers from this collective of intellectual giants include claims that the massive turnout victory for Putin in Russia in fact demonstrates “things are not well”, "the economy is collapsing, “the military is resisting orders”, and “the population knows he is a thief”. Seriously they are literally writing this on Twitter…
“It’s a moral killer.”
If Putin really is winning “Putin’s war,” why is this surprising? “Wow, a long-standing incumbent is running on wartime success and economic growth in face of sanctions from governments generally hostile to Russia. Why didn’t they write Navalny on the ballot???”
This is a consequence of having your cake and eating it too, where you buy into your own propaganda. Americans want Russians to shoot their own feet to placate “the west,” and call foul when it doesn’t happen because they actually think the CIA talking points they see on the nightly news are an honest reflection of the state of the world. Unfortunately, you can’t have it both ways.