Visitors enjoy the ice rink in Red Square at the Moscow GUM State Department store with the Spasskaya with Tower, left, and the Kremlin Wall in Moscow, Russia, late Monday, Feb. 14, 2022. While the U.S. warns that Russia could invade Ukraine any day, the drumbeat of war is all but unheard in Moscow, where political experts and ordinary people alike don't expect President Vladimir Putin to launch an attack on the ex-Soviet neighbor. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) 

 AP: Russians scoff at Western fears of Ukraine invasion 

MOSCOW (AP) — While the U.S. warns that Russia could invade Ukraine any day, the drumbeat of war is all but unheard in Moscow, where pundits and ordinary people alike don’t expect President Vladimir Putin to launch an attack on its ex-Soviet neighbor. 

The Kremlin has cast the U.S. warnings of an imminent attack as “hysteria” and “madness,” and many Russians believe that Washington is deliberately stoking panic and fomenting tensions to trigger a conflict for domestic reasons. 

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WNU Editor: Russians are concerned about war and the consequences that it may bring. And there is a consensus that a Ukraine war will happen one day. But as long as the reservists are not being called-in, most Russians are not going to lose any sleep. 

Here is a good poll summary on what Russians are thinking right now ..... Polls show Russian public opinion united on Ukraine (BNE Intellinews).

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