They stopped talking about him once they realised how many people were on his side.

The impact risk corridor isn’t anywhere near Russia.

See: https://iawn.net//documents/NOTIFICATIONS/IAWN_Potential_Impact_Notification_2024_YR4.pdf

Here’s an image to visualise if that’s more to your liking: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/2024_YR4_risk_corridor.png