Just to add to the last post, there is a difference between understanding and approving one’s actions. The purpose of propaganda, be it Russian or Western media’s, is to ensure that the understanding part is twisted to the extent that nobody in their right mind would approve a military intervention whenever blame has to be transferred or the opposite when a backing of a military intervention is needed. If you seriously believe that the minds of masses aren’t manipulated to suit a national agenda, then you are exceptionally gullible. All countries’ politicians play this game.
And now they should bomb Russian territory. Russians should understand and feel what the special action means. Just destry a few cities, hospitals, and schools like the Russians do in Ukraine. We will see how big the support for Putin will be.
I expect enforcing a no-fly zone that extends to attacking any aircraft or source location of missiles entering Ukraine airspace would be adequately embarrassing do Putin a demonstration of true relative power. Really there needs to be some videos disseminated on how the Russian population are actually all bunched into a fairly small part of the country, only as large a target as California plus a bit. They need to see how they can't survive either if they go nuclear. MAD only works if both sides understand cold reality. Putin working in them that their nuclear attack would be asymmetric is dangerous.
As I said on June 30: "The Americans are sending/have sent HIMAR missiles and the launch systems will fire both medium range and long range. Biden told the Russia that we would just be sending the medium range ones, but you know, human error could occur and from time to time some might "mistakenly" mix some long range ones in." Yup. That was a "mistake" waiting to happen.
https://www.newsweek.com/volodymr-zelensky-ukraine-russia-weapons-ammunition-depot-1722519 Ukraine Uses Western Weapons to Take Out Nearly a Dozen Russian Ammo Depots in 8 days time. On June 16, Kyiv’s forces blew up an ammo dump in Krasny Luch. Strikes on ammo stockpiles in Iyzum and Svatove followed on June 25. Two days later they hit dumps in Zymohiria and Rodakove. Ukrainian troops hit Russian ammo supplies in Perevalsk on June 28 and in Stakhanov on June 30. July 4 was a banner day for attacks on munitions stocks in Snijne and Donetsk.