GOOD MORNING – protest in Russia | Tyrolean quotation marks

Protest in Russia: Now Putin is throwing everything into battle. Let’s remember the oft-repeated sayings: Everything is going according to plan with the “special operation” in Ukraine, warlord Vladimir Putin always assured. Then his troops had to withdraw from the vicinity of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, leaving behind terrible massacres. And finally his soldiers ran away from the advancing Ukrainian troops in the north-east. Everything according to plan, for sure. In any case, there has long been no more talk of the occupation of the entire Ukraine, or, as Putin called it, the “denazification” of the independent ex-Soviet republic. But Putin can neither afford nor endure losing. And so he now ordered a so-called “partial mobilization”. 300,000 reservists are also to go into the war against Ukraine – which probably no longer goes through as a “special operation” in Russia either. What does Russia commentator Gerhard Mangott think about the new escalation? In today’s “Krone”, the Innsbruck professor points out, among other things, that the Russian population has “definitely not had a majority against the war”. He writes: “But when fathers and sons are torn from their families, professionals are taken out of their factories and sent to the front, everyone gets the impression that the country is at war.” the appearance of normality can be preserved. Now, however, Putin has to worry that the mood among the population could change and that, despite the tough censorship laws, there would be protests in the big cities (as in Moscow in the evening, pictured above). We wish this sorrow to the cruel warlord!