Up to 113 active Russian servicemen were convicted in 2023 - a near 900 per cent increase on just 13 in 2022
The number of Russian soldiers committing murder after returning home from the frontline have soared over the past few years amid “chronic mental health” issues linked to serving on the battlefield.
Data from Moscow’s judicial department showed that 113 active servicemen were convicted in 2023 - representing a near 900 per cent increase on just 13 convictions in 2022.
The UK Ministry of Defence said the high number of homicides was likely due to “war-related chronic mental health issues” and the release of thousands of ex-convictspardoned for their participation in the war.
They’re also recruiting from prisons and promising freedom afterwards, right? That probably doesn’t help.
Where’s the harm in taking violent criminals, giving them a year of practice doing war crimes, traumatize them up a bit, and then releasing them into civilized society?
See, it’s all planned, because they then arrest the criminals and ship them right back to the front! So efficient!
Circular economy ♻️
And they even had their training beforehand. Murder, conviction, battlefield. What would that take, half a week?
See? This is why the Sardukar were retired to compounds.
The horror of the Sardukar was in how a state leader could transform dissidents and derelicts (the product of the emperor’s own repugnant domestic policies) into a tool of command and control.
The horror of the Freman was in how a state leader could transform the desire for liberty and sovereignty into an empire-spanning blood drenched jihad.
Apply this to Russia/Ukraine (or Israel/Palestine or Ethiopia/Tigrey or North/South Sudan) and you see a host of disturbing parallels.
The longer and deeper the trauma of these conflicts, the more local people abandon their humanity in pursuit of victory.
Pfffft… Yet another sign of the Russian economy booming!
The murder economy
The sanctions are not working! 😡
(also, please stop the sanctions 🥺)
Russia is increasingly a resource tank for the Chinese economy. So long as the Chinese economy remains hungry for natural resources, Russia will be fine.
It’s that capitalist policy of murders and acquisitions.
Hardened criminals are freely walking around Moscow, but that’s okay because Ukraine is apparently the place of origin of the Russian people.
Same reason why Mussolini’s invasion of Greece was totally justified. Aeneas was the progenitor of the Roman people? I guess Greece is the original homeland of Italians.
Ukraine is the rightful successor to the Kyjivan Rus’ and the Soviet Union, therefore they should get the UN permanent member seat and all of the former USSR’s belongings, including Moscow. Do I get a medal now?
This is fine, but only if we stop pretending the UK is an independent country and just fold it back in with the US
Who would have thought the murders you sent to commit war crimes in Ukraine would come back missing pieces but still willing to commit war crimes in your home cities.
Well, I don’t think they were planning for them to come back at all.
Who would have known that giving your convicted murderers guns and letting them loose on a battlefield with zero accountability for the war crimes they commit and then release the survivors in your cities with zero transition whatsoever isn’t an effective way to rehabilitate them?
russia is completely fucked and I think the world might be better off that way.
That’s the perspective for the after-Putin era. It won’t affect his reign
Turns out when you send conscripted criminals to war you get back tactically trained war criminals.
They are fucking animals when out there. Killing and raping anything they want to just for shits. No wonder some of that stays inside of their underdeveloped brains after.
Not unique to Russia. Armed forces folks the world over are groomed to act like this.
Check out the surging rate of domestic abuse in Israel following Oct 7th.
And sexual assault in the US military (particularly the “elite” JSOC units) climbs with every new surge in deployment abroad.
Drug use, PTSD, high rates of bankruptcy and divorce and homelessness, all common to the military occupation.
Just another reason why War Is Bad.
Same will happen to IDF soldiers, not sure if Israel is prepared for that.
Israeli soldiers are not recruited from prisons like in Russia
Look up hilltop youth.
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You’re just learning about mental health problems of veterans?
He means the IDF have been doing this for a long time
