Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on ""Russian generals realize the war is lost" - Interview with Garry Kasparov" video.

  1. Garry missed one essential: The INJURED count for more than the dead. The latter can be honored -- and then, largely, forgotten. No-one can look past seriously injured veterans -- who roam society telling their tales. Politically, they are dynamite. Because Putin did not declare his project as a 'war' -- Russian contract soldiers are not held to war-time codes of conduct -- to wit -- they can quit. They just can't quit while on operations within Ukraine. THIS is why every imaginable gambit is researched as to how to get back home. Lastly, and this must be emphasized, Putin is not paying his boys Combat Pay. On paper, his boys are deemed to still be back in Mother Russia. So, Putin has it going both ways: The boys can't quit, they're in Ukraine; the boys don't deserve Combat Pay because they're still in their barracks. (!) See how that works? Cute. Payments are due in rubles -- which Putin can print at will -- yet the cheapskate STILL does not pay off. (!) Of course, the Russian medical system, as a whole, is now over-loaded with wounded veterans. In the meantime, Putin's critical war plants are in hiatus because they can't obtain micro-chips. Oops.
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  2.  @buddyrojek9417  IIRC, wounded veterans get to ride the rails for free -- a legacy of the rules established during the USSR. This may have changed. I've seen videos of wounded vets being treated like dirt by mere bus drivers. There are a LOT of empty hotel rooms in Crimea. So, I'm surprised that Putin has not moved large numbers of his wounded into the vacation wonderland... anything to keep such men away from Moscow and St. Petersburg.
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  3.  @danstone8783  I should think if you locked your bathroom and laundry room -- your commode and washing machine would be secure. But, what do I know ?
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