I find it difficult to comprehend that there are thousands of young Russian men right now that are stationed on the Ukraine border who are waiting for the order to risk their lives, their limbs, their health, their futures solely for the ambitions of some psychotic dictator. And not only that, but to go out with the desire to kill other humans, who they have no qualms against and would probably share a beer with if they met them at a pub.
What drives these young men to give the control of their lives to some megalomaniac who suffers from short-man syndrome who has $50 Billion stashed offshore yet wants more? Do these men feel they are worthless and deserving of such horrible fates? That they are only pawns to be used?
But to go out with the express intent to kill others is what really confuses me. Do they (or we all) have this inner self that is capable of such action, or are they groomed to accept the fate of sticking a bayonet into the guts of another person who they do not know and whose only 'crime' is an allegiance to some other piece of land on the planet. And 99.9999% of these thousands of men have never killed before. What allegiance to a leader is worth the nightmarish psychological leap of actually killing another person?
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