Sanctions' Economic Bite Tests Russian Faith In Kremlin War Narrative - TRMS - Ali Velshi - MSNBC

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Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasian Group, discusses whether Russians who have bought into Vladimir Putin's false narrative about the Russian invasion of Ukraine can maintain faith in that story as economic sanctions begin to devastate their economy. Aired on 03/07/2022.

[SheltieLover]

1. How can they believe sanctions have been imposed because putrid putin is helping Ukraine?

[panfluteman]

2. I Think the Guest Overestimates the Pro-Putin Segmant of the Russian Population

And, conversely, underestimates the strength of the anti-Putin Russian resistance. He also underestimates the strength of good, old fashioned common sense. As a previous poster said, why would there be such crippling sanctions on Russia if Putin were doing a humanitarian operation there, or saving ethnic Russians from genocide? Even uneducated people have some street smarts, and are able to put two and two together. Heck - the two countries are next door neighbors, and many Russians have Ukrainian friends and relatives - and so, the true narrative of the war has probably gotten through to many of them.