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Russia recruiting female convicts into the military report says, as the role of women in the Ukraine war expands (www.businessinsider.com)

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Russia is recruiting female convicts to boost its military forces, a Ukrainian intelligence spokesperson said.
Moscow wants to recruit the convicts to auxiliary and combat roles, the Kyiv Post reported.
More than 100,000 convicts from Russian penal colonies have reportedly been conscripted to fight in Ukraine.

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[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 44 points 8 months ago

So on the surface, it's more people to die in Ukraine, which is sad. On the other hand, one of the reasons women traditionally don't serve in armies is because if you need 100 kids to be born in 9 months, that can come from one single guy, but it can only come from 100 women. Something to consider in a country that is in a demographic crisis already.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 32 points 8 months ago

They may end up serving in a different role than you may be assuming.

Making a corps of childbearering women under military supervision would be very dystopian, but also kinda in-character for Putin and the Russian government’s trajectory lately.

[-] machineLearner@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

are we just making shit up now?

[-] deft@lemmy.wtf 19 points 8 months ago

I mean homie is just sharing thoughts not really making anything up

But you realize Putin is a human trafficker right???

[-] andxz@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

What, you'd be surprised if they press-ganged these women into sexual slavery? Really?

This is Russia we're discussing here.

[-] locuester@lemmy.zip 13 points 8 months ago

The Japanese did it during WW2. “Comfort Women”

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 15 points 8 months ago

I’m hypothesizing.

It’s not a stretch to imagine Putin and his ilk enacting some sort of horrific policy like that. They think of their citizenry as a natural resource to be exploited in a very direct sense. They do not care about their citizens in an individual sense. They only care about their citizens in an aggregated sense inasmuch as their citizens provide utility for their own goals and enrichment. That’s what a kleptocracy is, and the Putin regime is very much a kleptocracy.

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 14 points 8 months ago

If stealing kids is not below them, then how would this be?

[-] tzrlk@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Don't need a corps; just note that pregnant women get sent to the rear and let things sort themselves out.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Putin has no long term strategy. It's all about surviving the next day. Russia will be paying the price for decades to come, though.

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 26 points 8 months ago

It would be naive to think that. Dugin, his ideologue, wrote a book on their long term geopolitical strategy, of which Brexit, and funding US racists was a part of.

He made a massive miscalculation on the combat effectiveness of both the Russian and Ukrainian armies, which was a heavy blow to those goals, though. Let's hope it was a big enough mistake.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

They may write fantasy books where they are some sort of mythical heroes all day long. That doesn't mean any of this is applicable to reality.

[-] slaacaa@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Brexit happened, Trump was (and might be again) president, far right is growing in Europe. Outside of the battlefield, they are quite successful in their war against the West

[-] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 5 points 8 months ago

Social manipulation is something russia is unfortunately quite adept at

[-] ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The demographic consequences of Russia's misadventures will continue to echo for decades. The Russian security state has given Russia multiple lobotomies over the last ~100 years and that's more or less how they're able to stay on top of things. The stability they export is only an asset insofar as they don't have the same kind of domestic potential.

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