Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "Russia’s Combat Compliance Problem: Why Moscow Has Struggled in Bakhmut and Elsewhere" video.

  1. The greatest benefit to civilization (to which Asiatic Russia has always been cultural enemy) from this war is the demographic damage from combat losses (limited since Moscow is using it to dispose of groups it doe not want while conserving the Kremlin's Muscovite base) refugees fleeing conscription, and depressed reproduction rate. The Russian way of war has social consequences which are not immediate but difficult to mitigate especially for a kleptocracy. The expended group(s) survivors will be even less fond of central authority while Russia's vast size makes it difficult to govern. Because Russia is an enemy society, not a society with some temporary enemy government, the only way to reduce the threat is for circumstances to depress enemy population. Russian culture ensures there will never be a base for democracy unlike Russia's many Eastern European victims whose desire for freedom from generations of barbarism and genocide coerces them to band together against Moscow.
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