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

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.