Lukashenko says "we did not launch this war, we have a clean conscience"....that would imply that they have a conscience to be clean...i still don't understand the logic of telling very stupid, transparent lies when everyone in the entire world knows you're lying...
Mussolini had an incompetent army with very poor moral and lost almost every time, most soldiers hated the war. Mussolini did not have the kind of control of Italy, that Hitler had over Germany and he needed a fanatical SS to do that when things went south. Vlad does not have Stalin's level of control of Russia and never will, though he is trying! Soon the great depression will look like a picnic in Russia, millions of young people will move back to their grand parents dilapidated farms. The dying rural villages of Russia will spring back to life as a generation robbed of it's dreams goes back to the land and peasanthood in an effort to survive through subsistence farming and barter. I don't imagine they are happy and young people in particular will have trouble adapting to a new reality as their technology slowly dies around them and their iphones become bricks.
Fired them, not the same thing.
I dunno, Russian firings of the highly placed usually involve a small pistol.
Not today, too much information and these were soldiers, besides no need, humiliating them is enough. Treason is another matter though, but even in Russia these days there need to be trials. They ape a liberal democracy in form, not substance.
