President Trump admires and respects Putin, but what is Putin like as a Commanderin-Chief?
So many Russian professional soldiers were killed early in Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, that the Kremlin resorted to recruiting criminals from its prisons. Murderers and rapists were released for service in the Army. But so many of them were killed, that they began cannibalizing members of the air force and navy and even drone operators to serve as storm troopers for suicide assaults.
But they still needed more, signing new recruits, mostly from non-Russian provinces, luring them with an enlistment bonus and a contract that promised service in the rear. They were sent to training for two weeks…with a rifle…hold it…shoot it…and that’s it.. off to the front. Most new recruits die in their first combat mission.
What’s the front like? WWI trench warfare and urban combat amongst buildings destroyed by Russian artillery, but with precision artillery, proximity mines that only require you to get close, and drones…lots of drones. Drones for surveillance, blowing up tanks, trucks, artillery, air defense, and for killing individual soldiers. Drone on drone warfare has even begun.
Russia has also begun killing its own troops for retreating. During assaults, “barrier troops” are employed in the rear to shoot any retreating Russian soldiers. Says one member of such a troop, “If I don’t, they’ll shoot me.”
It’s estimated that Russia has suffered 1,140,000 dead so far and the bodies are no longer being collected. So many have been killed that it’s too expensive for Russia to pay the relatives compensation for their deaths. It is now even forbidden to collect the IDs of the dead.
The fields are so strewn with the Russian dead that the new soldiers drive over the rotting corpses because “there’s no other way.” It’s readily apparent that Putin doesn’t care about the Russian serviceman or his family, but our current Commander-in-Chief admires and respects Putin.
Spoiler alert: Commander-in-Chief Trump got four draft deferments to avoid the Vietnam War before finally being classified 4-F for “bone spurs,” which haven’t prevented him from playing golf, and no member of his family has ever served in the military. Just saying…
Source: quasar at Daily Kos, a great reporter.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/10/29/2350955/-Russian-stuff-blowing-up-You-drive-over-corpses-there-s-no-other-way