That's a generalization that does not help the vision of the world he had. Putin is the villain. Spreading the bad image of Russian people in general is not really helping anything. Even if the polls in Russia might show support for the war, it's mostly because everybody in Russia if afraid of speaking their opinion in public.
They're not afraid, they're disinterested in politics as long as it doesn't affect their day to day life, so food and fuel prices remaining manageable.
Putin is popular and has personal interest in remaining so, because otherwise Russian elites will find themselves a new Putin.
Putin is a product of Russian culture. To deny discussions about failed, catastrophic nurture equals handing the debate via silence back to the racist and nature.
Ignoring the patterns by paying attention only to conflicts with the west / clichees involved gets your ideas bankrupt .