"Nice barracks you got here. Shame if anything should happen to it."
A Russian fellow on this topic explained that the mafia are part of the state, and that this intimidation against the military is deliberate in order to keep the military weak. Killing and firing worthy commanders is also deliberate.
The reason is because the State is a Security state operated by the KGB/FSB. They fear the power of the military and so they systematically ruin it. High positions are filled with FSB officers with no command experience. Generals or commanders who become too successful are treated like trash and sometimes removed or even killed if they manage to obtain some kind of fame, for fear that the general could become a political figure.
The result is that the military, aside from some special forces groups, is filled with the dumbest possible people who can only fight the enemy from a great distance. Hence wiping out entire Chechen cities with bombs and artillery. Same in Syria. And they’re working on that in Mariupol.
Wan’t there a Monty Python skit on that?
This is the army that neo-cons have been trying so hard to frighten everyone about.
Who knew that systematically persecuting and massacring those who have a love of nation and commitment to defending their nation, strong ethics, religious faith, and values of bravery and endurance, would lead to having a sh1tty Military? Hm.
i don’t know about mafia, but from all i’ve read the conscripts get pretty much robbed blind on arrival at their duty station...