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On the flip side, it means crime rate and overall criminality of Russian population is likely going down just because people with criminal intentions or history

On the flip side, it means crime rate and overall criminality of Russian population is likely going down just because people with criminal intentions or history, go into the meat grinder and never return? I can see quality of life in the deep province improving simply because most of the people who everyone wanted gone from their lives since long, are now indeed gone. One thing to understand about petrostates is that you cannot bring them to the knees by depriving them of working-age population, or talents who might emigrate. For Putin, population is mostly just mouths to feed. He makes money off oil and gas, not people - population is a liability - having fewer people (to a degree of course) can paradoxically make Russia a stronger, more resilient, richer society.

actionfromafar 2y ago
It works until suddenly it doesn't. The lowest will get recruited, but more entrenched, established criminals are probably more likely to find a way to avoid the draft. Also the constant hollowing out of "normal" economy can't end well in the long run.
pvaldes 2y ago
Is unclear. On one side they send deliberately many jailbirds to a certain death, but also lots of young and naive Russians that weren't criminals. On the other side, every Russian soldier that will survive the war has became a hardened war criminal. Just read today about the treat to the Ukranian soldiers captured by Russia and exchanged later. If a tenth of what the Ukranian soldiers say is true (and their body supports the history), the Russian army is broken beyond repair. The relationship between Putin and Russians (or between the government and the Russian army) is an archetypical abuser/victim relationship. This will normally finishes with the victim killed at the end, as a lot of Russian soldiers had discovered too late. The lesson is: psychos don't care and will never care about you or your feelings. In rare cases the victims kill the abuser, normally after a traumatic shock or external forces breaking the spell. If the killed soldiers would have instead turn around and take the Kremlin, their chances to survive in the end would have boosted. Putin was really in danger when Prighozin realized that their expected role was to die in Bahmut. He tried to get himself out of the frypan but failed. Putin's face on video was of somebody mortally afraid those days.

actionfromafar 2y ago

It works until suddenly it doesn't. The lowest will get recruited, but more entrenched, established criminals are probably more likely to find a way to avoid the draft. Also the constant hollowing out of "normal" economy can't end well in the long run.

pvaldes 2y ago

Is unclear. On one side they send deliberately many jailbirds to a certain death, but also lots of young and naive Russians that weren't criminals. On the other side, every Russian soldier that will survive the war has became a hardened war criminal. Just read today about the treat to the Ukranian soldiers captured by Russia and exchanged later. If a tenth of what the Ukranian soldiers say is true (and their body supports the history), the Russian army is broken beyond repair. The relationship between Putin and Russians (or between the government and the Russian army) is an archetypical abuser/victim relationship. This will normally finishes with the victim killed at the end, as a lot of Russian soldiers had discovered too late. The lesson is: psychos don't care and will never care about you or your feelings. In rare cases the victims kill the abuser, normally after a traumatic shock or external forces breaking the spell. If the killed soldiers would have instead turn around and take the Kremlin, their chances to survive in the end would have boosted. Putin was really in danger when Prighozin realized that their expected role was to die in Bahmut. He tried to get himself out of the frypan but failed. Putin's face on video was of somebody mortally afraid those days.