If Russian troops start thinking the best way to stay alive is kill their officers, we’re gonna start seeing a lot of dead officers, especially with Russia’s reliance on criminals and mercenaries these days.
I wouldn’t get my hopes up. These guys knew that they were being sent to their deaths and they still obeyed the order. The Russian mindset is hard to comprehend.
The guy seems like a career specialist based on the article. Lots of regular conscripts have tried to surrender or run away but this guy fought in Russian proxy wars long before the Ukraine conflict. So he’s not the type to disobey an order like this.
They’d rather go and likely die than live in Russian gulags…
But they’d rather fuck off and be free than either.
It hasn’t even been a year since Russian troops marched to Moscow bruh.
They’re not as solid as you think. It took a leader to get them to march on Moscow, all it takes for them to fuck off is seeing others do it. And if officers stop them, well, there’s lots of people in the Russian army that won’t hesitate to kill someone for their own gain.
That was Wagner, which at the time was technically separate from Russia’s regular military. (Think of it as being akin to a private military company.) And they were lead by the head of Wagner. I think the equivalent in the Russian military would be Putin himself - so I’m not sure if we can expect the same sort of thing nowadays, as a military leader below Putin wouldn’t be expected to command the same level of loyalty over Putin’s army that the head of Wagner did over the Wagner troops.
I wouldn’t get my hopes up. These guys knew that they were being sent to their deaths and they still obeyed the order. The Russian mindset is hard to comprehend.
True. These guys know exactly what’s going on but there seems to be little to no resistance. Really strange.
The guy seems like a career specialist based on the article. Lots of regular conscripts have tried to surrender or run away but this guy fought in Russian proxy wars long before the Ukraine conflict. So he’s not the type to disobey an order like this.
They’d rather go and likely die than live in Russian gulags…
But they’d rather fuck off and be free than either.
It hasn’t even been a year since Russian troops marched to Moscow bruh.
They’re not as solid as you think. It took a leader to get them to march on Moscow, all it takes for them to fuck off is seeing others do it. And if officers stop them, well, there’s lots of people in the Russian army that won’t hesitate to kill someone for their own gain.
That was Wagner, which at the time was technically separate from Russia’s regular military. (Think of it as being akin to a private military company.) And they were lead by the head of Wagner. I think the equivalent in the Russian military would be Putin himself - so I’m not sure if we can expect the same sort of thing nowadays, as a military leader below Putin wouldn’t be expected to command the same level of loyalty over Putin’s army that the head of Wagner did over the Wagner troops.
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