Im sure the situation is so much more scary for the NATO members right by Russia. Hold onto the fact that he doesn’t have any support from even his allies.
Mentioned it briefly before, but there are certainly some people making plans to flee to other countries if it goes wrong. Putin's speech before the invasion (the 50 minute one which was basically a propaganda history lesson) was very USSR focused (I think someone did a breakdown on how Finland was hinted at too in the first thread?), and he has apparently talked about wanting to basically get the 'old territories' back
Social media also suggests some concerns from neighbouring countries about their security, though the leaders seem confident that nothing would happen or that NATO would help/deter Russia
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It's nice to see more countries helping and NATO seemingly getting slightly more involved (hence all this nuclear stuff from Putin as a response?), but it sets a bad precedent that a country in need of urgent help should have to withstand an attack for 2-3 days before other countries are willing to commit more resources, imo anyway
Also, rather confusing for Belarus/Russia to be offering/open to negotiations but then threatening to further join the war (in the case of Belarus as I'd understand, ignoring that their territory was used at the start of the invasion) and putting the nuclear forces on alert. Granted, I'm still of the opinion that nothing good will come from the negotiations
