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Tomorrow will mark six months since Russia launched a full-scale, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. The war, which has already caused so much suffering and death, shows no signs of ending, at least not soon. It is an outcome that, sadly, readers of TWBW knew to expect. This week, I’m bringing you a two part installment on what the war means for Russia.

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According to polls—though these are famously unreliable in authoritarian countries—an overwhelming majority of the Russian population, 76 percent, supports the war. And though the most ardent warmongers are people over 55, even the youngest Russian voters, the ones who were originally the least likely to be in favor of the “special military operation,” are now for it: 57 percent of them say they approve. Putin’s approval ratings, which had been sagging ever since he raised the retirement age, are again sky-high, hovering at 83 percent. If anyone is mad at Vladimir Putin for waging this war, they are either in jail, abroad, or silent...