Putin’s gotta fuel his war and war crime machine somehow. Like the tsars of old, he will do it on the backs of the peasantry. Russians are such a bunch of losers and pansies, they will not make a peep in protest.
They’ve had centuries of oppression and exploitation that made them that way. More’s the pity. Why alcoholism, wife-beating and anti-Semitism are common-place in Russia and the former Republics. Result of the old normal.