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facing existential threats. Russia is most definitely not. In fact, Putin is still not calling it a war, fearing its unpopularity. And potential draftees have been fleeing the country in massive numbers since 2022. To the point that Russia had to close its border to draft age men in 2025.

It was one thing when the cannon fodder came from the remote oblasts in central and east Asia, and the centers of power, St. Pete and Moscow, were virtually unaffected. They're being touched now and they don't like it.

These deep penetration raids aren't just about Russian public opinion. They're also about cutting off Putin's only significant source of foreign funding. Without that, the Russian economy is running on worthless slips of paper and very well might collapse. Outside of fossil fuel, there really isn't much to it.