Online Public Relations Thoughts

When you are a dictator, you can start a war then blame the other guy for initiating it.  That's the perverse logic, Putin is using in Russia.   And his citizens are buying it.  They admire a strong man as long as his actions don't impinge too strongly on their everyday lives.  So far, they haven't.  Putin has mobilized a massive country to put down Ukraine and he just might do it in spite of strong support from the allies.  Ukraine is holding out but it isn't making progress on expelling the Russians from the Donbas.  Putin's communications are wrapped in propaganda similar to that of the Soviet era.  He has stifled dissent and there is but one voice speaking.  Shades of Orwell.