Putin Has Released the Demons, Who Will Return to Russia

Putin Has Released the Demons, Who Will Return to Russia

The Russian soldiers in Ukraine know what they have ravaged as an army, Air Force, and navy, and also as individuals.  They know or will soon know that almost all of what they have done are war crimes, especially against civilians and civilian structures.  They know how brave and lethal the Ukrainian forces have been.  They will find when they return that Putin’s propaganda kept people uninformed of the carnage.  They will be warned on penalty of 15 years of imprisonment that they cannot discuss what they have witnessed.  

The retuning Russian soldiers know that they have slain their brother Russians in Ukraine, both figuratively and literally.  There are relatives and history between both countries.  Most of the Ukrainians they ran into personally spoke Russian well.  They were not Nazis, nor were their leaders.  They know that spiritually, they were Cain slaying Abel.  Nothing good could come of this. 

The 18 year olds who were conscripted for a year were not university students, or those with a family.  They were misled, tricked, or forced to signing contracts to go to Ukraine.  There, they were trained to carry out brutal criminal activities without considering the consequences or their morality.  They were trained to handle firearms and combat.  When many return to Russia, some will realize that armed gang activity is a lucrative endeavor for which they are trained and conditioned to.  This will be a curse among the Russian society.  The conscripts may be forced into this because Putin has destroyed the Russian economy, and there will be no jobs for them when they return, no paid college educations, no G.I. Home loans.

The Russian army knows that they have been defeated in Ukraine.  They have acted like a defeated army resorting to the anarchy of murder, thievery, and rape, as armys have throughout history.  This plague of locusts will descend back on Mother Russia.

There is also the shame that will pass on to those rulers supporting Putin, where they do not have a complete lockdown on information.  That hopefully includes China, Hungary, and Fox News.

About Dennis SILVERMAN

I am a retired Professor of Physics and Astronomy at U C Irvine. For two decades I have been active in learning about energy and the environment, and in reporting on those topics for a decade. For the last four years I have added science policy. Lately, I have been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic of our times.
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