Russian regions are dramatically increasing the amount of money they pay to new military recruits as analysts say “ideological” recruitment campaigns are no longer enough to motivate people to fight in Ukraine.
Not true. The sign up bonuses go to their next of kin. Russia is legitimately paying it out.
There are entire regions that have regeared their local economies to depend on these payouts. Because it’s mostly underdeveloped regions signing up, this has become the most bizarre and macabre investment program in the world. Here’s an excellent video on the topic.
typo: “that’s why SO many Russian casualties” … “do” changes the meaning to incomprehensible, & I suspect that many who don’t have English as their primary language might not understand how to fix the meaning…
You’re spot-on, of course: this is the point I’d been going to make!
Those mobile-crematoriums that Russia uses, to avoid paying-out the death-amount for fallen soldiers: machiavellianism taken to a degree I’d never have imagined…
I’ve heard of plenty of cases were people (or their next of kin) didn’t get shit. I’ll grant that that was from the first 2 years of the war, maybe they got their act together.
Not true. The sign up bonuses go to their next of kin. Russia is legitimately paying it out.
There are entire regions that have regeared their local economies to depend on these payouts. Because it’s mostly underdeveloped regions signing up, this has become the most bizarre and macabre investment program in the world. Here’s an excellent video on the topic.
And that’s why do many Russian casualties have just disappeared, and not been reported as KIA. To not pay the family.
typo: “that’s why SO many Russian casualties” … “do” changes the meaning to incomprehensible, & I suspect that many who don’t have English as their primary language might not understand how to fix the meaning…
You’re spot-on, of course: this is the point I’d been going to make!
Those mobile-crematoriums that Russia uses, to avoid paying-out the death-amount for fallen soldiers: machiavellianism taken to a degree I’d never have imagined…
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I’ve heard of plenty of cases were people (or their next of kin) didn’t get shit. I’ll grant that that was from the first 2 years of the war, maybe they got their act together.
ty AI bot, very informative