Who could have predicted the risks of having an army of murder-rapists with PTSD? /s

Who could have forseen this?

Wait, are there any convicts left? The have casualties in the tens of thounds per month, I would have guessed they were the prefered ones...

Good. I hope he dies slowly.

I thought the point was to get them killed as fodder before they could return home.

They maybe get a few Ukrainian kills in, and no longer have to pay to incarcerate a person.

They can't even get that right?

Oh no, my army of criminals survived the war I sent them to fight and expects me to allow them to reintegrate into society

Nobody likes to meet the Gaddafis of their actions.

Ukraine can help him solving that problem.

Societal debt brought on by prolonged authoritarianism.

Whole lot of military aged men coming back with experiences of being abandoned, left to die, ordered to die and seeing through the veil.. Enjoy

I just watched this episode of DS9

SOURCES SAY!

Putler dead within 6 months. You heard it here first.

Everyone here jumps on the band wagon, but seriously, 500 is nothing. It will do absolutely nothing. He could not care less.

The only thing that he's actually good at is having powerful propaganda machinery that would have left Brezhnev deeply envious of.

Otherwise and outwardly, he looks unfazed at some military setbacks, but he still have legions of Black Hundred fanatics having bought the concept of Russia as the center of the world.

Smart man

The cost of war:

10X-15X the battlefield deaths occur after the war is over. When the well cared for soldiers come home in a proper mental state. 10 times! Sustainable?

Putin logic:
The more you lie, the more honest you are.
The more you steal, the more trustworthy you are.
The more you lose, the more winning you are.
(Beat that, gay western men who steal Russian women!)

A Surplus of Men, A Deficit of Peace: Security and Sex Ratios in Asia's Largest States

In contrast to all that society stabilizing that he himself is doing.

denial and whataboutism, truly a Russian Hallmark

funny how he brought up 1989 and the fall of the Soviet Union.... history repeating?

Did someone say coup?

Violent convicts with fresh PTSD loose on the streets. Sounds like they're bringing a little war home, just as a treat. Not seeing the problem?

Joking aside, my ex-wife wasn't autistic but still clueless as to other's emotions, zero social skills, worked at Navy Federal Credit Union (largest in the world, not just US Navy or servicemen. Funny enough, my current wife works there.) She'd come home crying after talking to the guys home from Afghanistan and Iraq.

Those men were/are fucking wrecked. They couldn't understand the simplest things, couldn't handle elementary arithmetic, angry and scared, half-assed deaf. When their wives called in it was worse because the husband was mentally or physically incapable of making a fucking customer service call.

I had never seen that woman cry over her own problems, let alone cry over others.

Worked with some young(ish) combat vets at Lowe's last spring. Those guys are physically and mentally wrecked. Heard one man talking to another about how fucked it is to have your buddy dead in your lap in the back of the evac chopper and you couldn't have saved him.

Yeah, I spun on my heel having walked up to that. Nothing in my life story to contribute. Had mild PTSD twice, not counting twice saving my own life. Goons robbing 5lbs. of weed at knife point in my living room, on Christmas Eve, just doesn't quite compare now does it? Fuck me, I cried for two decades over a puppy I had to mercy kill. (I'm over it now. Still a little wiggy about the bear incident.)

Both those men appear perfectly fit. At 54, 140lbs. dripping wet, light emphysema, functional alcoholic, I was physically on par with these younger men. And both of them were fighting the VA for any sort of benefits. "Not service related." is the key word.

All that to say, if that's the American combat experience, long before tiny, flying, explosive robots were a thing, imagine what Russian troops are bringing home. Damn. Never thought I'd feel sorry for Russians.

Let's call them con-cons because it sounds cute. (exp: conscripted convicts)

Lets hope he reaps what he sows.