You would think. But I've seen enough videos of russians wading forwrad through their comrades' guts to question if I really understand their psyche.

I mean - I have trouble grasping how they don't put 1+1 together, look at the guys who went out yesterday and never came back, then get told "right - we're going to , let's go" - and not say 'hold on a minute'.

Worse - there's tons of footage of them literally marching through completely obliterated corpse fields of their fellow soldiers, and still pushing on. I understand coercion and can grasp having a very fatalist attitude to life in general if you accept that Russian life is a grey, grinding, living hell at the best of times. But how do you just waltz through open graveyards of deconstructed human pulp and think "this is okay, I know what I'M doing, I wont end up like these guys".

Then the last confused seconds of their lives, they hear a buzzing noise, turn to face it, then they make a stupid, terrorized face and feel a hot pressure wave for a millsecond as the drones assplode them into canned pasta.

How do they get them to leave the camp? Why do they keep moving forward into certain death? Are they literally that fucking stupid? You understand the institutional cruelty, the barrier troops, the brutal punishments for refusing orders. But - I mean - gruseome death seems certain when you leave that trench. I mean - the reality may be that they go off marching often all over the front, and we only see the aggregated videos of successful drone strikes. It's surprising that there aren't more reports of fragging and fratricide. Or maybe there are, and the overall shit performance of their assault forces is a reflection of their lack of motivation.

I've also seen accounts from captured soldiers that they often don't even realize that they're on an assault. Their commanders lie to them and say "go to point x, there will be supplies and comrades waiting there, then await further instructions". But in reality, they're being sent to unsecure locations, often to try and expose Ukrainian firing positions and be bullet sponges that the Russians can then try to target with artillery, drones and higher quality assault forces. That deception would explain why you sometimes see low quality, poorly equipped troops just mushing across open fields in very undisciplined looking formation as they're attacked by drones.

I don't know dude. This war is a vulgar, disgusting thing at every level. While I'm eager for it to end, I'm also callously thankful that Russia is so stupid and arrogant that they continue to destroy themselves hopelessly. Every dead vatnik today is a loss to the russian state's ability to invade again in the future.