The people of Russia are not responsible for this and the leadership does not care about it's people. He needs to target what hurts Putin, not his people.

Inevitably the people of Russia are suffering unfairly for Putin's war. One would hope that the repercussions of the war would ultimately cause Putin to fall. But I don't know by what mechanism Russians could rebel, no matter how dissatisfied they become.

We can't even figure out how to stop Trump's wars and madness, with much of our democracy still intact. But I'm sure if some adversary figured out how to attack Americans for the things Trump has done, Trump wouldn't care.

Zelenskyy should not target civilians but not for the same reasons. I would object on moral grounds. Targeting civilians is the reason why Russia IS a terrorist state. So let the Russians live to see another day, unlike what they are doing to Ukrainians. But target all infrastructure to hobble Russia into a withdrawal from ALL Ukrainian territory. The terrorism against innocent Ukrainians must end.

The people of Russia ARE responsible for this war as 70% of them still support Putin. A majority of them still support the 3 day war of aggression against Ukraine, now in it's 5th year of slaughtering Ukrainian civilians. It is inevitably the people of UKRAINE who are suffering unfairly. It was Ukraine that was invaded, not the other way around.

As for Trump, there are ways to stop him. The political will from our congress is what is lacking. Unlike Russia, the majority of Americans do not support this administration. Trumps polling numbers are in the toilet but as I stated, Putin's are still at 70%.

but I differ on who is to blame

So let the Russians live to see another day, unlike what they are doing to Ukrainians.

Lets be clear about who "they" are. Putin and his chronies, not the Russian people.
The Russain people are not free, including freedom of the press. They don't have real information. I would contend that half of Trump's support comes from people who were fooled by Trump's lies and propaganda (the ones who aren't despicable enough to actually support his policies). Only in the US, we are responsible for choosing unreliable news sources. Russians have no choice and haven't been educated--in fact have been mis-educated in critical thinking for generations.

i also question polling that claims to know what percentage of Russians actually support Putin in a country where you can't freely state opposition. And where a pretty large number of the opposition has fled of necessity in recent years--hell--throughout it's whole history.

When I say Russians are suffering unfairly I am not ignoring who the aggressor is. i just think both sides are suffering for the actions of one war criminal.

As for stopping Trump, I understand that Republicans in Congress can stop him. Yes, there might be more Dems can do but without a majority it's just not that simple. A lot of brave people have been trying.

Russians supporting the illegal war against Ukraine are Putin and his kremlin lackeys. The Russian people have a responsibility to find the truth. As the adage goes, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." The Russian people have a responsibility to themselves, to Ukrainians and the world to do there due diligence and find out the facts of what is really happening. Failure to do so is on them and no one else. To their credit though, there are cracks in Russian state propaganda, mostly from very angry Russian military social media outlets. So there's hope, but still the reality of this war being exposed to all Russians is moving painfully slow.

With approval for Putin hovering around 70% and a majority of Russians still wearing their "Z" logo proudly, there are likely millions of Russians still supporting this war. So sadly, they are not doing their due diligence. Even so, saying they are not culpable of the crimes being committed due to propaganda sounds eerily similar to war criminals who attempt to defend themselves by saying they were "just following orders."

The guys "just following order" knew what they were being told to do.
There are a lot of Russians who just don't know what is going on. There are Russians in prison for trying to tell the people what is going on. There are Russians fleeing the country because they know enough and don't want to fight in the war. What more do you expect them to be doing? What does "due diligence" look like in a totalitarian state? Any organization attempting to effect change or supply valid information is infiltrated and destroyed. Peaceful demonstrations have no effect on Putin, and overthrow by force is hopeless unless someone high up in the military has a change of heart. Then the prospects for such a person being democratic leaning is slight.

Then there are the polls. A high percentage of them are conducted by the state. Even the independent ones face a population afraid to openly express opposition. Door to door polls, for example, show more support for Putin than phone polls. I wonder why. Are there any truly safe anonymous polls that the Russians trust? And we'll never have a poll showing where support would be if there was freedom of the press.

We can't even get half of Americans to do the due diligence of changing the channel from Fox. Republicans in Congress are afraid to go against Trump for a single vote, and they get death threats and then get voted out of office if they do. I think we need to figure out how to clean up our own much easier house before we start telling Russians what they should be doing.