The best thing an unpopular regime can ask for is the enemy they have been bigging up as literally The Great Satan starts dropping bombs and missiles on the populace that hates it.
"If we bomb people and show their government can't protect them, they will turn against the government and we will win" has been tried by the Germans on Londoners, the Allies on Germany and Japan, and the US on Serbia, and it didn't work.
"enjoy" this comment from a lobster which almost perfectly encapsulates every pro-clanker viewpoint in one handy place
https://lobste.rs/c/0ug3so