EPTOn December 06 2025 02:17 Manit0u wrote:
You misunderstand. Russia is "promising" the money and not always "paying" it. Especially now that over half of their regions have stopped payments of soldier benefits because they're running on a budget deficit and a lot of "black widow" cases being handled by Russian courts recently - there's a new phenomenon where women target lonely alcoholic or drug using men, lure them into quick marriage and signing the military contract to get sent to the front. They're exploiting the system of high payments to the families of the deceased and expedited marriage processes enabled for war. Some of those women are already on their 3rd or 4th marriage this war.
There are even realtors encouraging such practices as a way to get a quick downpayment on a house or apartment.
You misunderstand. Russia is "promising" the money and not always "paying" it. Especially now that over half of their regions have stopped payments of soldier benefits because they're running on a budget deficit and a lot of "black widow" cases being handled by Russian courts recently - there's a new phenomenon where women target lonely alcoholic or drug using men, lure them into quick marriage and signing the military contract to get sent to the front. They're exploiting the system of high payments to the families of the deceased and expedited marriage processes enabled for war. Some of those women are already on their 3rd or 4th marriage this war.
There are even realtors encouraging such practices as a way to get a quick downpayment on a house or apartment.
Yeah they are gameifying it. Soldiers can get bonus for scoring some bigger kills.
Russia got plenty of poorer areas to sign up for it, and deployment to some region is basically a jackpot with little ukraine resistance anyways.
For Russia it doesn't really matter, the more got killed then it's one less they gotta pay.
The US is starting to withdrawing troops from Europe.
Germany is having a decent sized protest against voluntary military service.
India showing up with Russia and claim they want a stance for peace.
Everything is going to get even more chaotic next year.
The biggest pain point I feel like, is there's just a general lack of strong patriotism enough to go to war, in plenty of western allies.
Even Taiwan is facing a military recruitment issue, when China is doing non stop drills against it, in fact it's dropping to historic low number.
