Lindsey Graham aside, the center for the opposition to Putin may start to come from within Russia, as martial law imposed by Putin may only embolden his critics. Newtonian Third Law politics may be the situation fast at hand.

Meanwhile, many Russians and foreigners are getting out of Russia any way they can before the hammer comes crashing down.

I've left Russia amid reports martial law could be declared & borders closed. Tickets mostly sold out. Packed flight. Other passengers said they were afraid to be trapped in Russia, arrested or conscripted to fight a war they don't support. Don't know if they'll be able to return

— Alec Luhn (@ASLuhn) March 3, 2022

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FNC: “Russian citizens have reportedly started to flee the country ahead of President Vladimir Putin’s rumored announcement of martial law.

Earlier this week, Russia’s official censorship body issued guidance telling news networks to use only ‘trusted’ sources under penalty of closure, which led to the shutdown of two independent news networks, including Dozhd TV – known in English as Rain TV.

Tikhon Dzyadko, the overnight chief editor of Dozhd, wrote on Telegram on Wednesday that he was fleeing the country over fear for his life. ‘After the illegal blockage of Dozhd’s site, Dozhd’s accounts in several social networks, as well as threats addressed to some of our employees, it became obvious that the personal safety of some of us is now under threat,’ Dzyadko wrote on telegram Wednesday, according to Radio Free Europe.

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And Russian citizens have broadly started to panic as the Duma, Russia’s governing body, meets to lay out new legislation that may allow it to conscript anyone arrested for protesting the invasion – a number that stood at over 8000 as of Thursday evening, according to independent watchdog OVD-info.”

State Department spokesperson Ned Price said Tuesday, “We condemn the Kremlin’s shuttering of independent media outlets like these in an effort to stifle dissent against its premeditated, unprovoked, and unjustifiable attack against Ukraine.”

Alexey Navalny, a jailed opposition leader called Putin an “obviously insane czar” and said, “We must, gritting our teeth and overcoming fear, come out and demand an end to the war,” Navalny wrote on Twitter through a spox on Tuesday. “Each arrested person must be replaced by two newcomers.”

Putin will not take that lying down and we may quickly find Russia in an August 1991 scenario with Putin against his own nation. If so, the army will be the key. Just one general, just one regiment in the right place at the right time, and…