Was reading today that Putin’s aides have been out recruiting prisoners for military duty.
Basically inmates from Russian prisons are being offered pardons if they agree to fight in Ukraine.
If we think the conduct of Russian troops has been less than honourable thus far, imagine unleashing terrifying psychopaths and sadists - the absolute dregs of Russian society - serving time for murders, serious assaults, aggravated rapes, torture etc. And letting them loose in a war zone. “Here fellas, go for your life, live out your innermost nastiness with no consequence. In fact, you will be serving mother Russia by unleashing your innermost terrifying and sadistic desires.”
Apparently that was what happened in the early 1990s Balkan conflict. Some of the Serb and Croat militias were manned by total psychopaths who should have been serving time in prison, but as society broke down, they found their way out and onto the front line. The terrifying underbelly of society. Often these blokes had no really strong political convictions. Simply, an opportunity had arisen to live out their inherent horrifying, grotesque and sadistic desires unabated.