LiYang said:Now they hire kontraktniki out of gulags and feed them dog food. They lie to those boys and don't bother to train them properly.
most Russian contractors (kontraktniki) serve in the army simply because they have not been able to find work in their towns and villages. they were not mentally prepared for a war with Ukraine. all the more knowing that casualties among the civilian population are inevitable in a war. many Russians have relatives living in Ukraine. you can justify yourself when you kill neo-Nazi militants who have Nazi tattoos on their bodies and consider Bandera a hero, despite the fact that he called for the massacre of Russians, Poles and Jews during World War II, but in most cases you have to fight with soldiers of the Ukrainian army, who are not fans of Hitler and Bandera and who joined the army for the same reason as you.
lol I am a paranoid schizophrenic. suspiciousness is my characteristic and conspiracy theories are my hobby. why do you rule out the possibility that the world elite simply bought Putin? Gorbachev and Yeltsin clearly worked for the Americans. their goal was to destroy the Soviet Union. Putin came to power because Yeltsin appointed him as his successor. Putin started a war in Ukraine to destroy the Russian Federation. he is just a puppet of the world elite. :)
hmm interesting...do you think the Nazi narrative is failing in Russia? I've met many Ukrainians the past few months. Their absolute anger and hatred of Putin is the starkest characteristic they share. They'll fight to the absolute end.
I don't see a world elite except possibly among the trillionaires. It may exist but by shear numbers it can't (shouldn't) succeed. Putin has been fighting a long game though and he has been wildly successful at tearing apart the West. It's fucked up to see so called Western/freedom lovers suddenly backing Putin over liberal democracy - just cause Russian propaganda convinced them their side lost cause things have been stolen. He's played into manufactured grievances and his efforts to divide western societies has worked to a large degree.