This is John Batchel. Comment by John Hardy, my colleague at Foundation for Defense of Democracy

is watching Ukraine-Russia war, that the long-range strikes by Ukraine, the drone flying into

Moscow air defenses and damaging, badly damaging from the smoke and pollution erupting from the Moscow oil refinery.

All of this points to a sag in expectations of the Russian public that does support the war.

There's John to explain.

More of this tonight.

I don't want to emphasize it too much or or overstate it too much, but I do think that there is

something to be said for kind of bringing the war home to Russian citizens and kind of undermining

it, you know, when Russia, for example, was unable to protect, you know, important

economic facilities like oil frineries, like export terminals, et cetera, it says something,

you know, not great about the Russian leadership to the Russian population.

I think there's also been frustration with,

if you look at some of the specific strikes,

and kind of the environmental impact,

I'm thinking of an in particular attack on,

I think it was a refinery some weeks ago,

and kind of the,

what they call black rain,

basically oil kind of falling from the sky, you know, that I think does have an effect on the population.

And I think maybe decreases the kind of exacerbates the already long running and mostly unspoken frustration with what's perceived as endless war for really not

much benefit.

So, you know, I don't think it's going to, it's not going to result in, you know, popular

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