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There is no shortage of poor and desperate Russians that are willing to become Mercenaries. When the Russians use these forces against Slavic people like Ukrain
by hourislate 5y ago
There is no shortage of poor and desperate Russians that are willing to become Mercenaries. When the Russians use these forces against Slavic people like Ukrainians, they typically draw on men from far off regions (around the Stans or Siberia or Chechens) that have little in common with the local population they are attacking. Many of these types fought along Russians living in Ukraine and provided support while the Russian Military called the shots and directed traffic and weapons into the war zone. I was over joyed when the US killed about 200 + of them in Syria when they thought they could attack US Military positions without consequences. 200 hundred less to return to Russia and kill Ukrainians in Donbas.
- maga 5y agoThere is no shortage of poor, desperate, and morally flexible (to put it mildly) Russians, period. There is no need to bring racism into it. In the particular case of Ukraine it's actually counterproductive--this "diversity" was overblown by both sides: Russians wanted to represent the whole affair as "Soviet men of all kinds defending against Ukrainian nazis", and Ukrainians wanted to see it as "an attack of an Asian horde". I understand it's hard for Ukrainians to accept that people attacking them cannot care less for their common Slavic roots, but the sooner you do the better your chances of survival.
- p1anecrazy 5y agoI think propaganda on both sides is “dehumanizing the enemy” as much as it can and the average Ivan/Dmytro is on the receiving end.
- mhh__ 5y agoThere's also the (I think mostly emergent) truth bending too, beyond morale i.e. hyper normalisation, but slightly less glamorous than usually depicted.