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Why cant Russians get their shit together and deal with their terrorist gas station state "leader"? (sopuli.xyz)

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[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You cannot really run a country down worse than Putin has done

Nah. They were much worse off under Yeltsin than Putin.

destroying the own country’s economy

Russia's real wages climb 7.8% in 2023 as unemployment hits record low according to an anti-Putin source.

Russia went from the 9th-largest economy by GDP (PPP) in 2000 to 4th now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_past_and_projected_GDP_(PPP). It grew from 1.5 to 6.9 trillion from 2000 to 2024, an annualised growth rate of 6.6%

Life expectancy went from 65.48 in 2000 to 72.26 in 2025

destroying the image of the Russia as a country and Russians as a people in the eyes of other peoples not a problem?

Putin is fairly well admired in the world.

Anecdotally, I've been to India, Thailand, Tanzania, and Kenya since 2022 and the people I drank with were quick to praise him.

International popularity polls: 1, 2, 3

He's restored rule-of-law and stable institutions since Yeltsin.

Basically the answer to your question "How can they support him when he's crashed the economy and ruined their reputation?" is "He didn't and he hasn't." Sounds like you've been reading NATO/antirussian sources.