Originally Posted by
drillerpie
Yeah I get what you're saying, I suppose I just don't understand what you think the relevance of it is.
It's a bit like if someone posted an article about a man attacked and killed in the street by a gang in Nottingham, and you added that yeah it's awful but he was cheating on his wife and never used to get his round in - I mean it could well be true but it's not really the big story.
Do you really think that all militaries from all countries have the same level of discipline and show the same level of cruelty? There are no variations and it all evens itself out in the end?
Do you think that a soldier living in a highly nationalistic dictatorship like Russia, with a tightly controlled media environment telling you that the place you're being deployed to isn't even a real country, and is just full of drug addicts and Nazis, might have something to do with the contempt they show for Ukranians?