I mean, you can laugh at Putin being a dumbass and fucking the economy this hard while also feeling sympathy for Russia's citizens. The two aren't mutually exclusive.

And reducing all this down to a "my opinion good/other bad" chad vs wojak comic just removes all nuance from this conversation.

Putin has literally been president for 18 years. He made it law that he could just ignore existing term limits. He's a despot kept in power by the oligarchs who let him get away with this BS, and his forcible oppression of opposition. You can and will go to jail for criticizing him in Russia.