Honestly grumbling about Putin himself is a change in Russia. They've traditionally applied good tsar, bad boyars to him.

They aren't upset that he started a war, just that he hasn't been very good at it.

I’ve been hearing about how Russia is about to collapse economically, lose the war, and watch Putin die from cancer for… years now. It’s just clickbait at this point.

That's how most of the wars are lost. Most people will justify the worst crimes their countries do as long as they feel they are personally benefiting from it.

In the end, what most people seem to care about is their own material conditions

Real missed opportunity to have forgone "neigbouring" and let readers decide for themselves if you were referring to putin in Ukraine or Trump in Iraq.

I love how this applies to every country that invaded.

You might want to examine a graph of George W Bush's approval ratings by year sometime

If the mood is bad enough, it can result in death of the dictator.
And Putin has been hiding a lot in his bunker lately.

Nicolae Causescu would disagree if he could.

What's funny is that Russian trolls are gradually having a harder time trying to spin the increasingly losing war in Ukraine. They are running out of creative heads to write scripts to read from!

This is like the articles that talk about trumps base turning on him. No they’re not

We get the "Putin about to be toppled from within" article every couple of months going back 20 years. It's just a thing Western Media likes to print.

I mean, if it drops from 80 to 75% approval it is "turning on him". Also, meaningless.

No, they are also unhappy that he went to war. But, the attitude is that they can't control it so they don't think about it. Now, that they can't use their phones and there are burning buildings in Moscow it is harder to ignore it.

Those hamberders and old age will catch up to Trump any second now. He's already had a mini-stroke on national TV. Putin is 7 years younger and is health conscious to the point it was memed on, But unlike Trump, Putin seems to know he's in over his head and is looking to contain fallout from this invasion. Dr. William Spaniel thinks 'Putin is done' talk is overblown though acknowledges things don't look great at all for Putin in Ukraine or domestically.

Such a ridiculous situation that 2 old bitter people are responsible for so much trouble in the world.

putin has enoug plastic surgery and preservatives, like the permafrost. so trump is the likely one to go.

trumps children seem to be circling him like a vulture.

Damn I didn't see it before. It looks sad and cringey AF. What a joke of a country

Whoever takes his place will not have such a strong grip on everyone, so there will be a massive internal fight for power.

This is what all those Freedom of Russia legions are preparing for.