This is the swing in public opinion within Germany that Putin and his info war guys cannot understand.
Prior to the polling released this weekend only about 18-23% depending on the week done supported any form of really hard sanctions that would cost German jobs.
Polling released this weekend after the crash indication a swing to 52% of all Germans asked are in favor of hard sanctions being applied to Russian even and this is the key even if it costs German jobs and the economy slows. Pollers indicate that anger towards Russia is actually climbing and anticipate seeing higher numbers next week.
That is a massive shift in the German public opinion which has been rather neutral in the whole matter and has to a degree responded to the information war directed at them by Russia.
Critical for Putin is ----Merkel tends to follow her population's wishes.
Couple this with the same negative attitude by the Dutch the largest single trading partner of Russia also indicating they want harder sanctions--Putin has an economic problem now on his hands he can no longer control by his info war.
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/auslan...-a-983083.html