Indeed hence why sanctions are so important. They act as a channel to tell them something is up with what their beloved leader is doing. The TV tells them their patriotic war is highly popular and well justified, yet they can’t buy iPhones anymore. Well, maybe just maybe they will wake up. Because people are protesting and going to jail there, so it’s not impossible to know what’s going on. It just takes the willingness not to dismiss anything against Putin as “fake news”.