A new poll reveals that most Russians favor the actions of President Vladimir Putin, which is about pushing back NATO expansionism. They even consider nuclear weapons an option for the military against EU nations. Propping up Volodymyr Zelensky as the face of Ukrainian resistance as the West claims their help is needed causes more tension in Europe.
West Sanctions Affects Russian Economy
Vladimir Putin warned NATO and the US, but they did not listen until info that Ukraine was buying nuclear weapons and attacks on the separatist Donbas and Lugansk regions forced the Kremlin to move. Blaming Russia for the carnage in Ukraine due to its invasion and sanction heaped on it, reported the Express UK.
America and its allies have applied sanctions to stop the Kremlin, significantly affecting the Russian economy, leading many to lose jobs and forcing factories to close. The sanctions have significantly affected ordinary Russians with high food prices, and the ruble value has its worst decline.
The West may have made it worse by allowing the Kremlin to get more support and expansion of unfortunate attack on EU members of NATO anytime soon.
NATO Underestimated Russia
It is a miscalculation that Russians will back down, indicated in a new poll supporting Vladimir Putin, with 86.6 percent of those surveyed as in favor of reprisal attacks on former Soviet bloc members Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary.
Once part of the USSR or the Warsaw pact that lasted until the end of the cold war, after World War 2, leaders felt they had to prepare for a western invasion. Before invading Ukraine, Putin demanded the West pull back NATO forces in Eastern Europe, but they ignored it, noted Reuters.
Last December, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Rybakov told the media that the West has been pushing too close to Russian borders and demanded to remove these elements as they were in 1997, citing the Daily Star Post.
Russians Back Putin's Actions
Poll numbers show that 46 percent agree the Kremlin attacked the EU, with 40.6 percent thought expansion of reprisal is valid.
Nuclear weapons are acceptable to 75 percent of Russians to strike the West, and its leader should fear the consensus. More than 40 percent said nuclear attacks were okay, while 34 percent are all for it. Active Group company surveyed during March 11-14 with a total of 1,557 respondents via telephone calls.
Poland was always wary of Russia that it would reclaim its place, and it would not settle for what had been happening for years, but NATO dismissed the idea.
Last Monday, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawieck of Poland asserted that Ukrainian soldiers were struggling not just for their independence but for the liberty of their Eastern European neighbors and called the assault of Russia in Ukraine as part of a geopolitical strategy devised by the Kremlin.
A week ago, the Polish PM and other EU leaders were in Kyiv to meet the Ukraine President there.
