As the Russian Army continues to lose battles, men, and equipment in Vladimir Putin’s ill-considered war of conquest in Ukraine, the lives of Russian soldiers, as short as they are, have gone from bad to worse.
Putin has responded to the losses incurred in Ukraine with a call-up of 300,000 reserves. The men, suddenly informed that they are headed to the front to fight for the Motherland, are not reacting well.
September 26, 2022
The UK Daily Mail reports that as thousands of Russian men attempt to flee the country by any means necessary, the more unfortunate who have not been able to avoid conscription, sometimes by press gangs, have turned to the traditional solace of misery-racked Russia.
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Russian men who have been pressed into the fight in Ukraine have started to drink vodka as solace for what is about to happen to them. They drink lots and lots of vodka. The rampant drunkenness among Russian conscripts has caused considerable chaos at embarkment centers.
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“In what is rapidly becoming a popular subgenre of Russian war videos, multiple clips depict Russian recruits getting hammered as they prepare to ship out for two weeks of basic training before being thrown onto the front lines.
“One video shows a Russian conscript passed out in the grass near a runway while others stumble towards the plane, while in another, a drunken group tries to punch up as the bus waits for them.”
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Disgruntled soldiers and exasperated officers have started arguing with one another. Can fragging be much behind?
The Atlantic interviewed a Russian tech worker named Anton Shalaev, who was fortunate enough to get out of Russia when the getting was good. He captured the mood inside Russia rather graphically.
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“A few old men and an army of zombies are leading us to hell. I say that because people around me in Russia behaved as if they had been bitten by a zombie, dragging my entire country into a dreadful war. All I saw was Russian loser husbands beating their wives, while the entire rotting house of the state system has turned my people into an army of the dead.”
Shalaev has a four-word message for Putin and the decision-makers in the Kremlin. “They are my enemy.”
He also hopes that Putin’s instinct for self-preservation will stop him from launching a nuclear war.
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