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These traumatized murderers and rapists might climb the ranks of Russian society and ensure that tomorrow's Russia is as fucked as that of today. So in a way it's everybody's problem.
"And then, things got worse."
Oh no. In the end we end up with a mobster in charge of Russia! 😱
How are they supposed to climb the ranks all of the sudden?
And there's historical precedence for war veterans to come back and climb political ranks, especially in less democratic countries.
It's a lot of young men coming back from Ukraine. Some will create problems locally, as the article talks about. Others might fulfill Putin's vision and make sure Russia will remain in the dark ages for even longer.
If this war is remembered by Russians as patriotic, as is the preferred way for Russians and most other people to remember their historical atrocities, it seems likely that a future president will be a Ukraine war veteran. With everything that entails.
I don't see how that would be possible. Even official propaganda tries to present it as the lesser of evils or something. Even half of the official propaganda doesn't argue that this is one big fuck up on all levels.
Maybe in 100 years.
Organized crime.
This may actually be the other way around. Chechen wars' veterans (mainly those who were abusing the civilians, FSB etc) were his pool of loyal people.
And probably this war was intended to give him another such pool.
The issue is - it went differently and most of the expertise and experts gained there are about actually fighting a war.
So the change may actually be for the better once the dust settles, only I don't even want to think what will be between end of war and then.