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The guys "just following order" knew what they were being told to do.
There are a lot of Russians who just don't know what is going on. There are Russians in prison for trying to tell the people what is going on. There are Russians fleeing the country because they know enough and don't want to fight in the war. What more do you expect them to be doing? What does "due diligence" look like in a totalitarian state? Any organization attempting to effect change or supply valid information is infiltrated and destroyed. Peaceful demonstrations have no effect on Putin, and overthrow by force is hopeless unless someone high up in the military has a change of heart. Then the prospects for such a person being democratic leaning is slight.

Then there are the polls. A high percentage of them are conducted by the state. Even the independent ones face a population afraid to openly express opposition. Door to door polls, for example, show more support for Putin than phone polls. I wonder why. Are there any truly safe anonymous polls that the Russians trust? And we'll never have a poll showing where support would be if there was freedom of the press.

We can't even get half of Americans to do the due diligence of changing the channel from Fox. Republicans in Congress are afraid to go against Trump for a single vote, and they get death threats and then get voted out of office if they do. I think we need to figure out how to clean up our own much easier house before we start telling Russians what they should be doing.