Putin, like many thugs, is also a Con Man

Supposedly, 80% of polled Russians support Putin. Though I do expect a majority of Russians still in fact support Putin, I am also of the opinion that in Russia one knows the Right answer. You see, it goes easier that way, no sudden visits by the tax man, no harassing phone calls. Why?
 

https://www.newsweek.com/russian-confidence-putin-ticks-past-80-percent-despite-war-fallout-1743928
 

Well, you see, in Russia, everyone lies, and everyone expects to be lied to. So, all those parents whose child is now dead? They don't even know he's dead. Later they will learn he went missing. That no one is really sure where he went. Its easy to lose track of person's data when they are buried in mass graves, and no one really wants to know the stinking details. Those parents of course still support their now dead children, even though they don't know they are dead, and may never really know for sure.

Eventually however, the pile of corpses Vladimir Putin sits on will grow so large that the lies will no longer fool even those who want to believe him. And at some point the throne of skulls Vladimir Putin sits on will be crowned with his own severed head.

Untill then: King o death gotta sit on his skulls and the body pile in front of him grows higher and just proves to the little megalomaniac that he is powerful after all
when in reality he's only a lying thug, whom history will remember as Hitler 2.0

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putins-russian-empire-is-collapsing-like-its-soviet-predecessor/