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This is irony.  Putin claims the West is out to get Russia when it is Russia out to conquer Ukraine.  He has framed the invasion as a noble attempt to fight Nazism when there are no Nazis anywhere to be found.  The only thing missing is sarcasm.  Putin is striving to get the Russian public to believe his lies and there is strong indication they do.  To keep falsehoods current, Putin needs unrelenting propaganda and he is getting it with his ironclad control of the media.  One wonders how long this situation can last, and the answer is for a long time.  Putin has a grip over the levers of power and he is cunning.  He won't go away easily or at all except by dying in office and there is no indication he is ill.  He seems resolved to conduct a grinding war -- as long as it takes -- and to wear down opposition bit by bit.  He is a dangerous man for whom facts are malleable and truth is what he says it is.