The russian military is a human trafficking ring badly disguised as a professional military, stop the human trafficking and process of tricking foreigners into military service… and there is no longer any lower rung of the pecking order for russians to point and laugh at the fate of in order to push down an awareness that their own fate isn’t much better.
This pecking order is necessary to make any progress against a much more motivated foe as war ALWAYS comes down to extremely intense combat at the crucial flashpoints and the only way to force unwilling people into that space who are just there for a paycheck is to give them no other option… or place them alongside humans sent into even worse conditions those troops can be stoked into a racism/xenophobia against.
If we refuse to lean into dehumanizing these foreign troops and that becomes undeniable domestically in russia despite russian defensive propaganda, the russian army will cease to have the proper will to fight everywhere that it most matters because troops will protest that they are being treated worse than insert bottom of rung here are by the enemy and so why should they be treated as even less valuable than that?
It is unsurprising but disappointing that so much of Europe and the “West” has leaned gleefully into kill count in the Ukraine War like this is Call Of Duty, sure kill as many russian soldiers and foreign mercenaries as needed to end the war I don’t disagree with decisive lethal force, but understand that focusing on this makes russia’s argument that their enemy is even more evil much much much much much much much much easier for them argue.
It is doing work for russia at a place we should be undermining russia which is hammering home over and over again how little russia cares about the people it sends into the most crucial and intense frontline battles which categorically Ukraine does the opposite of, which is why Ukraine is winning…
Every single time russia sends more troops into war without giving a shit about whether they live or die, it kills the soul of identity as a nation a little bit more, which when it comes down to fighting morale, is pretty much everything.