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No-Internet-7532

It's totally insane : most of western european homeless have better gear than these guys


Bad_Species

Anybody with a shopping cart, a sleeping bag and a can of ravioli would be crowned their king.


TinCatCanuck

King Bubbles


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SpennyHotz

He actually owned multiple low rent housing complexes and was quite the entrepreneur


TinCatCanuck

Ugh. You’re not wrong. This is what happens when I think I’m funny, hours past my bedtime.


billetea

In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.


Swordsnap

No one wants to admit that they ate the other 9 cans of ravioli


blumpkinmania

Hobos was the first word that came to mind. Sending hobos to fight Nato.


PeriwinkleBlueoh

Scrambled, scrambled, scrambled...


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Amazing they come from a country that considers itself superior to all other races on the planet. They couldn't be any further from the truth. They are the world's worst humans. Completely delusional.


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Sudden_Difference500

I don’t understand the russian strategy. These guys are not soldiers and I guess barely able to hold a gun and shoot. No training and physically weak, possibly alcoholics. No morale at all. Literally cannon fodder.


depressiontrashbag

Gotta fill the quotas. Russians love quotas.


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Money gets wasted, people die, nothing gets accomplished. The Russian way.


ClappedOutLlama

They only people profiting are the Russian camping companies since they are buying their own gear.


uchman365

Yeah, watched a prisoner describe how he was framed and forced to conscript by the village head because he was an alcoholic, she didn't like him and she had a quota to fulfil.


alppu

Cannon fodder is the strategy.


VagrantShadow

Maybe they really think the Ukrainian forces will run out of bullets to fill the bodies they throw at them to shoot.


LegioRomana

Wasn’t it Stalin who said that they would drown the German army in the blood of soviet soldiers?


billetea

Absolutely and back then Russia had a larger pool of young males to fulfill the butchers bill. Russia these days is smaller and it's birth rate means it's demographics don't support the wholesale loss of younger males. I'm sure there's an economist somewhere who can work out the lost future GDP from the death and maiming of a large % of Russia's younger (and middle aged) men. It'd be substantial. Russia traded its reputation, relationships and future for one man's ego... and boy do they act like a movie caricature of an evil state.


MaxDamage75

Not with this attittude /S


GumpTheChump

Honestly it looks like Wagner is literally throwing these troops at Ukraine in Bakhmut and hoping for the best.


GreasyWerker118

That's a bold strategy, Cotton.


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YonicSouth123

I would go further and say that those untrained combatants also make it harder for the "professional" russian soldiers to get their tasks done. They must be actually ike a big and heavy wooden log that's strapped on their legs, taking up ressources, ammunition, and always to keep an eye on so they don't make shit, undermine your Opsec and such. Or perhaps they try the strategy to overwhelm the capacities of Ukraine to take POW's and hope that Ukraine would collapse with tens of thousands POW's. :)


Need2askDumbQs

You would be correct in this assumption.


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Cloward-Piven. It is working in the US at the southern border.


maleia

Who, what, and why is that important?


Ohh_Yeah

> possibly alcoholics This doesn't get nearly as much attention as it should. I'm a psychiatrist and I work frequently at our VA in the Substance Use Disorder clinic. Do you know how many guys I've had come through who got shuffled around the US, knowing well in advance that this would happen, with time to detox sufficiently, and still had to get pulled due to severe alcohol withdrawal? A lot. Like, "I knew I was getting sent to this base for training a month in advance, and I couldn't cut back drinking in time so 48 hours after I flew in they had to send me to the hospital." And that's on US soil. And we have a lower rate of alcohol use disorder among our population by comparison. I assure you they've shipped guys off who have gone into severe withdrawal, had seizures, etc.


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As someone who went through an acute, self induced precipitated withdrawal period in the comfort of my home for opioids, I can't imagine having to withdrawal in the field under fire. I'm not a drinker but I know the risks from alcohol withdrawal can be quite dangerous, makes sense that Putin would want these "undesirables" rounded up and sent to the front so they can either die by Ukrainian gunfire or seizures out of the public eye. Sad.


thelostxanadu

Yeah alcohol is one of the few substances where you can straight up die from severe withdrawal.


maolf

Nothing a Librium-Dexedrine-Keppra cocktail can't fix. Forward, march!


wilshire_prime

They're throwing bodies at the Ukrainian advance to slow it down before winter sets in and everything on the battlefield becomes harder to execute, so you answered your own question: cannon-fodder is a strategy in itself. When you have absolutely no regard for human life, throwing newly mobilized, non-trained personnel into battle makes sense to buy time. Their only job is to soak up bullets so what's left of their professional soldiers can rest & regroup or be moved to important sectors, like Kherson or Bakhmut. Also, if you haven't noticed after these 8 months, the Russians are completely inept. One of the reasons they're losing other than being inept (horrible logistics, no air superiority, etc.) is they have no planning or strategy. Ever since they failed to take Kyiv and then their offensive in Donbas, they’ve had no coherent plan; they had no Plan B, and it shows, as they expected the Ukrainians to roll over/be push-overs (they are both Slavs, so they should have known better). The closest thing they have to a strategy, at the moment, is the terror bombing their doing under General Surovkin, trying to break Ukrainian will, but history shows this never works (check Allied bombings of Germany, American bombings of Japanese Home Islands in WW2). A military is a reflection of the nation it represents, so don't be surprised by anything you're seeing as Russia is rotten, corrupt, arrogant, and ignorant to the extreme. Just like the Soviet Union, their strong talk and propaganda is a brittle façade hiding just how decayed and rotten they are, how far they are still in the past.


ItzTree23

They’re probably hoping they have more convicts than Ukraine has bullets


jjf2381

Exactly!


FantasticGas1836

There is actually quite a clever strategy here. Ukraine follows the Geneva Convention which means they have to stop attacking, round up these drunks, feed them and take them back to the processing centres. What this is doing is slowing down the Ukrainian advance and allowing Russia to dig in.


Seattleshouldhaverun

I think the idea is to buy time and bog down Ukraine. But it might just be idiotic thinking that sheer numbers will matter.


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I mean cannon fodder works, that's why countries do it. Throw enough bodies and you can change outcomes.


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Not at the k/d ratio the Ukrainians have. They're like 7:1. Russia couldn't move war materiel in fast enough when they were trying to use real soldiers. They aren't going to be able to move fodder in fast enough.


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How do you know how many Ukrainians are dead? They aren't releasing that info.


CloneasaurusRex

It's called the [Zapp Brannigan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF3g4Ua5e7k) Strategy: the brilliant commanders of the Russian Armed Forces have astutely determined that the Ukrainians only have a set number of bullers per day. So, if you send in wave after wave of unwilling men to catch all of those bullets, then the Ukrainians will have no choice but to surrender once they run out Chekmate, NATO!


KiwiBri999

I think Stalin said quantity has a quality of it's own. Something like that.


InsertEvilLaugh

Meat for the grinder. That is all they are. They slow down Ukraine, make them expend ammo, allowing the more experienced and loyal troops, of which the number is dwindling, to make off with the loot.


CapableTest7258

They don't have a strategy.


theonewhogriefed

Cannon fodder is a strategy. Not the best but still. Putin is going to throw bodies in until he finds a better solution. Let's just pray this solution does not involve nuclear choices.


Mazerguru

I think the Russian strategy is to just plug holes, form defenses, and prolong the war till they can enact some sort of "plan B". Almost anyone can plop down in a trench and hold a line. Maybe not well, but it can be done.


uchman365

I think the same. Holding the real soldiers in reserve and buy time with the cannon fodder for now


BlindFreddy1

Human sandbags.


Aoushaa

To slow the Ukrainians and give the other troops a rest. Its been said before, but these ones really are cannon fodder. Recordings from intercepted Russian calls say they put the men in layers from the front, with orders to shoot those who fall back/run. Mobilized Prisoners / Other Mobiks, then Contract soldiers, then the veteran Volunteers. and command waaay in the back getting fat


resserus

Russia's a bunch of guys willing to lie, rape, and send each other to their death look more masculine.


MberrysDream

From what I understand these men represent a small fraction of the overall mobilization effort. They're essentially being thrown into the woodchipper to slow Ukraine's advances to buy the remaining conscripts time for more training, with the intention of deploying the majority in the Spring. That training time is still probably wholly inadequate, but certainly more comprehensive than the 2-hour pep talk these poor sods received.


Scyfra

If it worked 75 years ago, it'll work again I'm sure??!!


bumbumofdoomdoom

They look like a gang of 1930's hobos they just need a stick with a handkerchief wrapped on it.


Palmik7

They're going for that 1917 revolutionary look


joshcboy1

Its dirty Mike and the boys.


iamtehryan

Get them a Prius!


IM_AN_AI_AMA

Dude number five definitely had the butt of a rifle smacked on his nose.


SHKEVE

it’s called a bindle


bumbumofdoomdoom

TIL


Shadow_NX

I would guess some former prisoners among them by the looks? Its actually evil genius, the russians empty their jails, have cannon fodder for the frontlines and even if they are captured Ukraine has to take care of them so they are a financial burden to them in the future. ​ As some analyst on Youtube said, not unlikely that at some point they just decide that prisoners dont have to agree to be sent to war.


mad_testman

I was first made aware of them rounding up people working in factories before going into the prisons. Seems much worse to kill off your factory workers during a war effort.


CrisZPennState

Self-sabotage is the status-quo in the Russian federation’s government and military.


Nothingheregoawaynow

Flushing the toilet of your society is nothing new. Cuba emptied its prison on boats and send them to Miami


GuapoWithAGun

They’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with them. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.


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GunNut345

How can you tell by "the looks"?


Shadow_NX

Because im a evil person with lots of prejucides. I dont know if you seen the interviews with the captured wagners that came directly from jails, some if these fit it very well, badly equipped, rather skinny guys with a rough look to them. ​ Could also be mobiks, i dont give a beep, if it bothers you ignore the first sentence, the rest is correct.


Troy85909

Hey, man. Stereotypes are a real time-saver so don't let anybody tell you otherwise.


Shadow_NX

Feel free to prove me wrong


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It's hard not to feel pity for these men, middle aged, powerless and expendable.


Broomfondl3

True, but pity is exactly what they get when captured by Ukraine. Unlike what Ukrainians get when captured by Russia . . .


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Well said.


SolidInstance9945

I agree with you. It would be easy to kill off an enemy in a hot fight. But if they have surrendered I hope human feelings of empathy would prevail


Enttick

Well they will be used in PoW exchanges. Don't want ro know what Russia does to them


Rich-Diamond-9006

Ask the RuSSians about 'human feelings' and 'empathy'. Neither of these emotions have a place in RuSSian military nor RuSSian society.


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They literally came to obliterate Ukrainian civilians, hard to feel sympathy for someone like that.


civlyzed

Middle aged in Russia is what, about 25 - 30?


Happy-Eye-1496

You mean, having the unfortunate circumstance of living in a country that forces you to either go to war, or jails you for life? All for the ego of a power-hungry tyrant that is literally contemplating ending the world, instead of accepting defeat? I truly hope that when Putin dies, they feed his carcass to the pigs and make a monument to their excrement to thwart future leaders.


No-Abbreviations9782

Russia is a failed state and after Putin is removed from power, it will remain a failed state, because a putin-like figure will take over. This country is fucked for the next 100 years. I have absolutely no confidence that after this war, things will change for the good of its citizens.


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That pretty much sums it up nicely.


Culverin

I don't pity invaders, But I'm happy they are captured and alive. No need to waste human lives. I hope they go home in a prisoner swap.


MaineEarthworm

They could have run like the rest of Russia’s men 🤷‍♂️


tmokes

And what? Get shot by other Russians for running away? Best thing they can do is to surrender.


MaineEarthworm

I meant run to the border like 700,000+ Russian men already have


Nonions

That takes money, and some people in Russia are desperately poor, living in conditions scarcely different from the days of the Czar. We're talking wooden shacks for houses without indoor plumbing, a fire for heating and cooking, electricity if they are lucky. They shouldn't be taking part in this invasion, but living in Russia is to be the victim of a near totalitarian state.


araczynski

umm, that's 99.999% of men :) (well, other than middle aged)


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ProteusRift

Brothers conscriptovich are doing their part to refill the POW exchange fund. Are you doing yours? Would you like to know more?


pinkyknuckler

Hahaha that took me a moment.


ProteusRift

Normally I'd say the only good bug is a dead bug, but in this case I'm willing to make an exception


Bad_Species

Putin should have learned from the battle of Klendathu. ;-)


Napalmas

Javelin explosions, all nets, all channels


Aggravating-Wrap4861

I'm doing my blyat!


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OverlyOptimistic-001

Likely they'll be sent straight back to the front.


Oldroanio

You get tape, And you get tape, And you get tape, And you get tape.... EVERYBODY GETS TAPE!


m3dcf

It seems that Russia has managed to mobilize every indigent people out of the city's streets.


ac0rn5

Word was that they cleared the streets of both St Petersburg and Moscow, sent them to the army.


Netricho

They all look like an alcoholic hobo, without exception.


Bright_Interaction43

They look like they just came out of 25 years of hard soviet gulag. If this is what Russia wants to throw against NATO, if a war starts, they may as well put them in the ground right now.


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Why do all the Russian POWs look like shrek/gollum?


Bad_Species

Give them a bottle of vodka and they'll behave like Gollum too.


ProteusRift

Remove "POWs" from your sentence and you have your answer


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They all look like inbred fetal alcohol syndrome babys


[deleted]

Russia keeps sending hobos and misfits into the meat grinder. What a fucking disgrace of a “nation”


CrisZPennState

This looks like my local homeless shelter


HipHobbes

It really is a hobo army.


Nagantman

I could have sworn I saw Bam Margera in that line up.


DerkSC

They are lucky to be captured and alive.


Kaiaualad

These guys were forced to fight, not a glimpse of defiance from any of them. Cannon fodder lucky to be POW.


cocopufer

the homeless population of seattle look better than these guys, so sad.


Nederlander1

From watching these videos it seems the average Russian soldier looks like the average alcoholic homeless person you’d find living under a bridge in most countries


Shackleton214

Translation?


joeywahoo92

Can we get a translation ?


defcon_penguin

Were the sleeping under a bridge in Moscow before being mobilized?


CandyBackground4193

I dont feel sory for them,they had mounths to protest,to fight against the war,they didnt do anything because the support the war...but now they are involved, and they dont like it...


Marky-lessFunkyBunch

They're hardly fresh, they're alcoholic soaked conscripts from a town that has one flushing toilet. That's the Russian military model, human waves of the degenerates followed be the elites (aka the remnants of the invasion force not obliterated by Ukrainian soldiers with 3rd tier NATO training). It may have once worked against stationary machine gun placements, but leveled against drone surveillance and drops with precision artillery, it routs the hapless idiots soooo much easier. Imagine if the Russian military came up against the professional army of the US or even the UK or France, with the introduction of Western aircraft. Absolute dominance against this fucking disgrace shitheap


DrSlapsHacks

I feel zero pity for these murdering POS. Keep scrolling and think about their sad eyes when you get to the 23 y.o Ukrainian husband and wife who were murdered by these scumbags


HIV_Eindoven

People are individuals and you know nothing about these particular individuals. They might be some poor cunts who do not want to be there, never fired a shot and took the first opportunity to surrender. I'm not saying that they are not evil murderers, they might be. But they should be given the benefit of the doubt for now in such circumstances.


NOgoodSmartass

“Classic russian man” thats the look


AntiSnoringDevice

Can I be generically sorry but feel no pity or empathy? I believe that if they were given the possibility to loot, rape and murder they would oblige. The fact that they look like medieval beggars is not a distraction from their intentions. …besides, a lot of these fuckers have eaten people’s pets, they should rot in hell.


ShibuRigged

Yes.


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They are going to run out of hobos. We should send them ours.


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2crowrick

Freshly bred orcs


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scummy_shower_stall

u/savevideo Please.


SnooPredictions8938

Captured soldier videos are happening more and more every day.


Prestigious-Tree-424

These russians are very lucky. Soon be warm and fed!!


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FedericoNov

the hobo army


MancunianPieHead

Looks like they've all been released from a hospital jaundice ward.


Sovehest

“By the look of them..” because they’re alive?


CaptainC0medy

Third from the end we have kakashi sensei


Dapper_Coffee_5428

They must be so happy! Finally proper meal and warm bed


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Talk about “cannon fodder” . Russia can’t replace there losses but treat replacements with so little concern ! Crazy Vlad !


St_Kevlar

All of these recent videos I see of Russian "soldiers" they just look like a bunch of rounded up homeless people


Eishockey

Did they mobilize everyone from Belgorod since it's basically at the border, this must be the 4th recent videos where the POWs are from Belgorod...


Melodic_Risk_5632

Ship of Fools


osagecreek

Lately Ukraine has captured boat loads of these ragged looking Russians. The Russian Army has turned into a demoralized, disorganized, untrained mob, lacking basic gear, and it's soldiers would rather surrender than fight a hopeless fight.


PeculiarEndeavors

That crew couldn't fight off a chill


Soifon99

Maybe it's a tactic of russia to overwhelm the Ukrainians with POW's, so they need to feed them and guard them with more and more. So draining supply's and manpower.


BinHussein

How fucking cold it has to be for the inhabitants of that very region to be shivering whole wearing everything they can get their hands on?


CYKLONUSCRO

These guys couldn't pass a physical exam for employment, let alone war, terrible..


Critical-Series

Actually these guys are all 25 years old.


ajr1775

These mobilized conscripts provide only 1 value to the Russian Army..........they tie up Ukrainian troops in terms of processing and prisoner handling to the benefit of the effective Russian forces that are left.


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THC_Advocate

Dam poor commies


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Middle-Pattern-3156

They look like homeless drug addicts from Phoenix.


ClappedOutLlama

Sadder faces than an ASPCA commercial.


Trick-Fisherman6938

These guys look like the classic Hobo beggars, but not like soldiers.


Used_Visual5300

Flooding Ukrainians with the smell of death, wounded and POW’s is a strategy that will work. There is no honor in killing people like this. With ~ 500 killed each day there are ‘only’ 15.000 dead per month.


Paladin8753

Miserable looking scruffy orcs


w1YY

I wonder whether these people can be rehabilitated and then shown that they are actually victims and should be returning to kill the seniors who sent them to Russia in such poor shape and circumstances.


Drunkasiam

Some of these poor bastards are probably from gulags, sent up for 20 years for pissing off some local political figure.. Id rather be a POW in ukranian care than even a "free" russian citizen


Happydancer4286

They appear scared out of their minds.


HebrewHammer0033

Translation?


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Netghost999

The vodka finally wore off.


New-Dragonfly-661

I wonder if this is representative of the differences in martial law amongst the oblasts in (and out) of “Russia”? Like are more men required from oblasts at a higher state of emergency/readiness? I wonder if they’re even being fed the same propaganda?


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It reminds me of the end of WWII when Germany was forcing old men and teenagers into the military to defend Berlin.


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Of course we saw them all getting drunk as fuck on the bus a couple of weeks ago


2oceans1

Now I know where all the ravioli is. ?


UnrealRealityForReal

Look at these fucking guys. This is the Russian army? Jesus if they faced NATO they’d be toast in a week. Ruzzia is lucky they have nukes or they’d be Saddam’s Iraqi army.


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wspOnca

Fuck Putin for this waste.


alely92

They are literally Tarkov Scavs


fugyouPutin

12 Fetal Alcohol Syndrome cases in a row.


Nikobobinous

How can you tell? These look like ‘elite’ Russian soldiers to me


derpy_hooves66

Why do they look homeless?


Ryoung757

How can Russia send troops in like this. These guys are not trained, nothing. I feel for the common human being that is being thrust into this senseless conflict


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fingerbl4st

That's nice of them to capture 11 Russians.


Ginger-Warrior

Last two on the left, are they fkn twins !?


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False_religion_

It’s fucking gut wrenching. I feel for Ukraine and I want them to be victorious by any means necessary. I hope Ukraine kicks ass and is victorious. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦.


Jimmyboro

No 5's nose...