regarding that survey about vaccination status and sanctioning russia:

that's what the governments get for making a solid percentage of the population to outcasts because they don't take experimental (still emergency use) vaccines. you breed contrarians.

putin is not dumb, he knows very well that the west is incredibly vulnerable right now. caught with our pants down.

it would probably have played out nice, in the sense that people would have forgotten the next time voting, with everything back to a kind of normal.

that isn't what happens now though. you can't expect the fresh contrarians you created to happily cheer along with other, unrelated points on your agenda. they will do the opposite, just out of spite.

whatever will happen, nearly every country in the west now has a substantial part of their population which have dropped out of the "democratic system". with no return in sight. the governments will act like trudeau has acted, emergency powers, and will breed more contrarians by this.

i think we will see the west calling gg on the last remains of democracy in the next decade.