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A lot of people had this attitude in Russia. Let the evil guys run the country to the ground, and then rebuild into a better structure. This will happen, I think, the only problem is that can take decades and millions of people dead in the process. No suggestions here, just a note...
I think you underestimate just exactly how popular Putin is with the Russian people, or I should say was originally. I don't think he's as popular now because of the "police action" in Ukraine and the number of Russians who have died to it and the economic hit the country has taken as a result of it. But he was insanely popular with the Russian populace through most of the 2010s.
Didn't he win his last election with something like 94% of the vote. The dude is outrageously popular... or there might be something else going on.
A little of both since he is extremely popular in his country and he has also either jailed his opposition or they have gone missing or died mysteriously.
Your point does not contradict mine, unfortunately. He was and is popular. Maybe a little less so now, but he would win fair elections now, I think. The line many people in Russia take is "he is the only one who could take us out of this mess. Without him the country will collapse". And there are, of course, a lot who wholeheartedly support his imperial ambitions, just like there are plenty of magas in the US.