They should just send the police to war.
this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2025
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They tried before. Spoiler: It didn't go so well.
https://thedebrief.org/know-no-mercy-the-russian-cops-who-tried-to-storm-kyiv-by-themselves/
Nah, Putin & friends would be better.
“One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
Until Russians start fragging the people who issue orders on the ground and opening fire in their barracks, this won’t end. I don’t understand why, when faced with certain death, a person wouldn’t deign to take a few oppressors with them.
They probably dont know any better and only realize who the real enemy is within when its too late.
Propaganda works.
I wonder if they fear for the well-being of their families, making wasting their lives in a pointless war more meaningful than endangering the well-being of those related to them.
Call me crazy but, with things getting like this, if I was a Russian, I'd go. Just present myself, get the trainning (ah! as if!), get the equipment, get the guns.
Immediatly start to prepare a bomb attempt at a magazine, a hit on an officers station, whatever. Do some critical damage, from within.
It will either be dying on the field or by firing squad, so, better to die doing something useful.
Lol, the problem is, you would be in Ukraine by that moment. At best, you could take some officer with you to the grave. At worst, you wouldn't get any ammunition till zero-line, (aka peredok on russian).
That sounds familiar.
I heard stories of people that were sent to war in the sixties, by draft, and there was a practice of having new squads train with their commanding officers.
Many of those officers got a bullet to the back of the head, in the field.
I assume the biggest problem is that the people are taught for centuries to follow their leaders instead of thinking for themselves and acting accordingly. It is the mentality of the general Russian society I would say. A larger Russian population could for sure bring down the government and end the war by an instant, yet this remains sadly as it is, utopia.