If you sit and ponder over this for a while....Putin's entire 'sales-team' is left with just three things to sell:
1. The evil NAZIs are being destroyed....somewhere.....somehow. Via TV and print-media....countless numbers of NAZI enthusiasts in the Ukraine have been wiped out. No one ever says the numbers though.
2. The military operation still continues on....on day 37.
3. The US-EU sanctions business has had no true effect on Russian society.
Beyond those three things....there's no other brand-name to talk about.
McDonalds is shutdown....the empty shelves do appear occasionally....prices have edged up....air travel has been pretty much wiped out unless you want to travel to some other part of Russia....and Putin appears well (although he's not been seen in Moscow in at least two weeks).
Can they talk about bunker-life for Putin or the inner circle of the Kremlin? No.
Any fake-chatter over liberation for Ukrainians from the evil NAZI folks? No.
Each day, the news team awakens and looks over what can be approved to say or hint.....then build enough video to cover that message.
It's a pretty dark message to sell at this point in time.
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