Ret. Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling joins Ana Cabrera to discuss reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin is making tactical military decisions in Russia's months-long war in Ukraine. #CNN #News
@@rogerpennel1798 Trump has a great military mind. The only President in recent history not to go too war. Biden will before it's all over. Oh... And, sorry that Trump took out your friend, the Iranian general. Prayers.
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@@karaoglan4085 Are you being snide Kaaoglan? Not a good look. Ronald was not implying UK troops took Berlin - many many books have been written about the Russians taking Berlin. But US and UK and other countries troops were busy everywhere fighting and dying to release the world from Hitler and the Nazis. Don't be SO small minded
@@DavidProductions Russia had serfdom (glorified slavery) of its own people until the lae 1800s, and the soviet union's collectivization was basically not very different.
true. Hitler also failed with that attempt, intervening all the time in Erich von Manstein's decisions, so let him do it, best guarantee for the Ukrainian armee to be victorious in the end - it is a good thing 😁🌈
@@1philliph lmao!!!! Trump is not that stupid......try Adolf and Putin's hero Stalin... though Stalin was a lot smarter in WW2 by letting his generals win the war
You're forgetting that the Nurmeberg trials were against nazis, but this is a war to denazify Ukraine so clearly they are not to be held to the same level of scrutiny. /s ... ... (Hate that I feel the need to fully spell it out, but I'm being sarcastic if that's not clear.)
No, but the officers and leadership above, all the way to Putin, need to feel the same, or worse, punishment. Much like a murder where one person hires someone and provides a weapon, time, and place of murder, then has someone else commit such murder, all are guilty.
This is like the situation in the movie "A few good men". The soldiers carried out an act that was commanded by their leader and were prosecuted, along with their commander.
We can compare them to western militaries. completely difference laws and command structures, Beside the corruption is deep in the Russian military and the government..
Nobody can win the loyalty of the other by killing and hurting but only by love help and compassion.By killing and destruction only enmity and retaliatory action can be expected.
RETALIATORY? BY WHO EXACTLY ? DID YOU VOTE FOR A WAR WITH RUSSIA ( A NUCLEAR POWER) SO YOUR OK WITH THE UNITED STATES LEAVING AFGHANISTAN IN A HORRIBLE WAY ONLY TO COME TO UKRAINE AND CREATE A WAR WITH A SUPER POWER. YEAH YUP . NO WONDER JOE BIDENS IN OFFICE. LOOK AT THE VOTER BASE.
@@sodobson - The world is as real as WE make it. WE decide what is real and what isn't, by manifesting the things we need and/or want. What's real to you? What do you want/need to be real? You don't have to answer,..just think about it.
russia has never understood a simple concept: On attrape plus de mouches avec une bouchée de miel qu'avec un gallon de vin aigre. You catch more flies with a spoonfull of honey than with a gallon of vinegar. russia only understands scorched earth, which is why most russians live in third world conditions and steal toilets from Ukrainian homes.
It has nothing to do with greed. Putin is a criminal, but what he is doing is very understandable. People in the US are ignorant of the fact that NATO has been expanding toward the Russian border for decades. NATO missiles are now stationed in Poland. When Kruschev put missiles in Cuba we went to DEFCON 2. But now we expect the Russians to tolerate what we never would. This is how wars get started.
This reminds me of a few years ago when I was studying ISIS. When new people would go join them, like from Europe, the ISIS leaders would _immediately_ have that person execute a prisoner. Often in the most brutal manner. It was done to make them psychologically unable to leave and go back home. They felt they couldn't "go back." Once a person does that, they are much less likely to be able to leave. These young Russian soldiers are being psychologically manipulated in the same way. They will continue doing it. Note: Being forced or ordered, as Lt. Gen. Hertling says, doesn't give them an excuse. I can just see that the Russian commanders may not only be just desperate to gain control, they are also psychologically torturing their own people to get them to do what is wanted and to control them.
Once more, castrazia, chopping out right hand, cutting throuts, when we swopped one russian solger on hundreds of Ukrainen, he took his own life...But west absolutely brain washed Gebbels propaganda. Russia has no propaganda at all, all mass media belongs to US....
Jan, if you are equating Russian soldiers and what is going on in Ukraine with ISIS, you have been drinking to much western kool-aid. General H is a retired, armchair general who knows little to nothing about about this conflict and is simply reading a script.
These young soldiers are in their physical prime, but mentally. They are not ready for these type of atrocities. Whoever commanded him to do this inhumane act, needs to pay for this, dearly.
Yes, indeed. But there is one puzzling thing - Young people or even people with family thrown into slaughtering battles very often flip a switch and become monsters. Locking whole villages in barns or churches and set them on fire f.e.. First noticed with the nazi-german army - and then found with every bigger war since then. No matter the nationality. It can only be countered with a proper command structure - mostly. The russian military seems not been aware of it or just use it to put terror on the normal people. I just learned about that "switch to flip" and it really makes me sad.
I'm sure these Russian soldiers are put in a terrible position, but if "I was only following orders" wasn't sufficient to excuse Nazi troops in 1946, I'm not sure why it would be here...
Looting, rape and torture, they surely went above and beyond in following those orders, to then play dumb and lie about "not knowing where they were going". Just infuriating
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Because there's been many psychological experiments that have shown that the vast majority of people defer to authority when put in that position. After WWII, nobody understood how so many average German citizens could support or condone Nazism, now we know that it could happen anywhere. Plus, this kid can't be blamed for all of the crimes Russia has committed.
The parallels between Putin and Hitler keep getting stronger. As Germany began to hit serious issues on the battlefield, Hitler began to micro-manage his campaigns and sack his experienced generals. Now Putin is following the same path. It didn't end well for Hitler...
Putin is not hitler but successor of stalin .you should not forget that It was Russia who won the world war 2 .You country got only money from world war 2
Doomed? The U.S. is controlled by the descendants of Nazi's who invaded in 1935 and committed genocide on the American people. Don't know about this? That's how many people they killed in the U.S. For instance, these Nazi's found Nazi's in Ukraine to support. And their hatred for Russia is because if not for Russia the Nazi's would have taken over the world and there would have been world wide genocide only seen in Star Wars movies and there would be NO Russia today. All the Russian people would have been executed. All of them. WW II is not over yet. And these Germans who occupy and control the US want to finish the destruction of Russia that they started in the beginning of WW II. This is the entire reason for U.S. support of the war in Ukraine and all the wars they have been in since 1945. See, Murder of the Creoles of New Orleans 1935, RU-vid. My father was there. I went to school in the USA that was mostly for German kids. I have a half sister and a half brother who have the same Nazi father in the USA. And Nazi's murdered people in every country they occupied so they probably control many of those other EU countries as well. Hitler was in the U.S. when he started the war in Europe. That was his double who died in that bunker in Berlin. Hitler lived in Rhinebeck, New York until the early 70's. The prize was always the U.S..
Farm buildings can be rebuilt. Tractors and combines are available. But fertile land? Irreplaceable. Not one inch should go to Putin. Take t all back. 💙💛🇺🇦🌻
Rich and fertile Ukrainian Kuban was annexed by Russia after the 1917 revolution and also some fertile Ukrainian territories in exchange for Crimea. Many Russians from everywhere dream to live there. No more Ukrainian land for Russia! Greedy Putin wants more money for himself and his young children with Alina Kabaeva...
@@lunafringe10 what a flippant remark about destruction, murder, rape and theft. Sometimes I wonder how people can tolerate living inside their own skin. Millions of actual people count on that grain to live. It’s not a game, you know. Perhaps someday someone will let you experience it firsthand. Gross.
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Nothing this boy says will bring back this innocent man. His Commander instructed him to shoot so he should reveal his Commander's name and let him be charged too. The saying still holds true,"THE DECEIVER IS JUST AS BAD AS THE ROGUE."
Not saying the young man was innocent and he does deserve some punishment but you need to be aware of the commanders were killing soldiers who didn't follow orders and in at least one case killing them With Grenades So imagine yourself in a situation where you have a gun to your head and your being told to kill a civilian and if you don't then you're going to be killed.
By now the defendant probably *did* name the officer who gave him the order. Ukrainian intelligence would be interested to know, but it's not relevant to the court case. It will only be relevant if that officer is ever put on trial, himself.
I have a co-worker like this. It used to upset and frustrate me, but I've realised that she is just making things more difficult for everyone, including her, but then, that makes her 'better' as we are constantly doing things 'wrong'. Every narcissist in the world, high or low, is exactly the same.
There are articles of Elon Musk doing exactly this when someone at Tesla would complain about their working conditions, he'd take over and do their job for them and say "it's not so hard. Look at me." I remember at the time this was lauded as "savvy businessman" behaviour, but it's actually a clear indication of a toxic boss who is a nightmare to work for.
Edward, General Z is also in charge and there is a glorious "evacuation " in Mariupol, a blessed victory on Snake Island, and utter distruction of Russians in the Donbas. All hail the chief Z ! And may all the grain flow through the MINED (by the UKRAINIAN FORCES) Black Sea.
I have never heard of Pres. Zelenskyy running military matters. I assume he leaves that to the experts because he trusts them. That is the mark of a good leader.
Nato has abandoned Ukraine and have stopped them from becoming a member, Turkey wants to Vito Finland and Sweden from becoming members, so to Nato especially USA and Turkey 🖕🤨🖕 Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇦
@@michaelotieno6524 America ain't doing jack 💩 sure they have supplied weapons to Ukraine, but that's it, the Army and citizens of Ukraine and foreign fighters are doing way more, and I take my hat off to Zelensky Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇦
@@reinerdykeman Just go pick up a newspaper. The Ukrainians may be fighting and dying but the Americans are in charge of the war, the training, the arming, the strategy, the tactics. The Americans have admitted to this several times.
This isn't new however. Western, more specifically the US military utilizes a decentralized command structure which gives field-level command elements the ability to make decisions, whereas Russia (and old Soviets) use a more centralized command structure. This is evident in how this war has gone for them. They're very slow to adapt to what's happening on the battlefield and keep running into the same ambushes and getting air assets shot down in their same areas of operation.
The EXACT same thing Hitler was doing at the end of the war, making bad tactical decisions on battlefield level, trying to move forces and micro-manage his troops, it was a blunder for Hitler and its a blunder for Putin
@@lunafringe10 those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it, that's no just long term history, but recent history... Putins attempt to take over ALL of Ukraine failed because amongst other things his conscript troops dont want to fight, in fact the literally are still abandoning their tanks and running away, he has already lost the war, but continues to press the "attack" that is continuing to be rolling disaster
Hitler actually had some good points. His generals wanted to focus on conquering Moscow and Hitler was focused on Russian oil fields. If Germany reached those oil fields the war might of lasted a lot longer
@@matthewneddeau7993 Stalingrad though was hitlers obessesive idea and that contributed to much of the attrition on the eastern front, hitler from maybe 39-42 made some fine military decisions
@@matthewneddeau7993 Yes, while the ultimate goals may have indeed been good ones, it wasn't about the goals, it was the poor execution and poor intelligence (vastly underestimated russian army status and numbers) ill prepared for winter campainge and many other mistakes in planning and execution. But perhaps the worst of all was Hitlers insisitence of "no retreat" policy, which didn't allow his troops to regain the lost momentum by pulling back and regrouping from Stalingrad.... Hitler should have learned from Napoleon, he failed to do so, and was doomed to repeat that defeat and fatal retreat
It is obviously not commendable that the young man, a soldier killed. It is though commendable that he expressed, repentance and accepted his accountability, responsibility of guilt. Beyond that the guilt of the military commanders who gave direct orders, having failed their troops. Unfortunate the tragedy of war, the lives lost.
C.L. Quite eloquent. All wars fought are sickening. If humanity is to survive, we must find a better way of resolving our differences, or humanity may be no more. Best to You and Yours.
True. Putin and his corrupt military leaders are so blood thirsty they have NO FEELINGS for the soldiers they command. They're just as guilty of war crimes against their soldiers as they are against the Ukrainians These Russian soldiers that make it through alive will be so mentally and emotionally scarred for life. It wouldn't be unheard of for them to go on killing rampages later in life. But they would be trying to kill those who put them in that mental state of being by ordering them as immature soldiers to kill and main their supposed enemies that they know wasn't really their enemies but victims of ordered war crimes. And Putin is decorating and awarding these killer commanders, which puts the idea in these young minds, that killing will get you rewarded. Most of the Russian soldiers sent to Ukraine are untrained beyond just knowing how to discharge their assigned weapons. They're told you fire or you'll be fired upon. Fear can cause a lot of chaos. But the commanders use that fear against the soldiers to get them to commit atrocities
@@xaigoart It would be surprising to some, if the lawyer said, Jump, that some wouldn't say, how high? Of course there is the 'right thing to do in the eyes of the public, and in this, it said, the commanders told' him to kill and he killed, the lawyers told him to repent and he repented. It seems obvious he is young and not so wise but at least he tried to appease the experience for those concerned. It doesn't mean, he needed to, should have, or that he couldn't have done something else, but he tried to do, at that, at so much that. It is more than his military commanders can or might be able to say, if they ever testify to their own doing. Doubtful.
Ret Lt Gen Hertling has studied and experienced military history thru the ages to unfortunately the present in Ukraine today. As we watched destruction play out the Ukrainian land that is so valuable for grain and sunflowers throughout the world may take years to reclaim!May God and Goodness be on the side of the Ukrainian Patriots for its valiant people and valuable land to be protected and restored!
How ever this General has the idea that Zelensky will win this war ! A child knows that Ukraine is nearly finished, they only can continue with underground resistance. Ukraine soldiers in the east are completely encircled, and cutoff of supplies
You Ukrainian neo-Nazis are making people lack infant formula, Gas and fuel prices are rising, inflation is severe. Don't make us sicker of you. Why are you guys on the American media thread to provoke. Go home and fill your ONLINE TV with your babbles.
@@oldhollywoodbriar Well, thank you person I do not know for your insulting very Putiny Russiany response. Maybe don't INVADE countries and get the Russian people's money back from your mad and thieving "leader." Ukraine WILL win.
In WWI, Russian Generals were eventually dismissed so that the Tsar could take over by himself. When he failed, there were no underlings to credibly blame.
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I recall hearing some oligarchs (I think 4 at this point) have "suicided" since the start of the year. Putin is going to have to clamp down on a populace feeling affects of sanctions. It's a downward spiral between public discontent and maintaining control by increasing force as the discontent grows. It could get real ugly in Russia at the end of the start of the new year. The part that worries me is that a bunch of nukes would be out there. All it takes is one madman.
Indeed, germans were purged in Eastern Europe ever since WW1 ended, which is why the austrian painter invaded them. Similar things happened in Ukraine with russian citizens but I guess the layer of leftist propaganda is too thick for the truth
At first I agreed with the soldier and only following commands, then I remembered a lesson from my time in the military. To the question of "what do we do if a superior orders us to do something illegal?" Response from the staff sergeant was to not do it and ask repeated confirmation, stalling basically. Not sure how well that works under pressure, as the general here pointed out.
In germany this is different. If a german soldier disobeys an lawful order, he can get in jail for three years. He can get impunity if the order goes against human dignity or has nothing to do with military service. Also § 11 Abs. 2 Soldatengesetz ("soldier law") states: "An order must not be followed, if it would require commiting a crime" (ger: "Ein Befehl darf nicht befolgt werden, wenn dadurch eine Straftat begangen würde.")
Yep, you're supposed to refuse to carry out the unlawful order and report it up your chain of command, bypassing the person who gave the order if he is in your immediate chain of command.
Is entering another country legal or illegal order tho 🤔 at which level of approval does it become legal? was the US congress approval enough to make the Iraq invasion legal?
No NCO class of leadership. Many in the military lower ranks are often from the lower socio-economic strata and the concept of war as a commitment, like Chechens have, on the one hand, or the conflict objective, is either missing or confusing to the rank-n-file.
That's like asking a barber to do open heart surgery the patient is not going to survive your days are numbered you butcher of Moscow Slava Ukraini we love you and stand by you and so does the world 🇺🇦❤
@Miss Bikini since you have a Russian flag in your email address you probably won't recognize the fact that the butcher of Moscow invaded Ukraine for no fkn reason and your state TV lies about it but putins days are numbered
“…who haven’t been trained in professional values “. Exactly! I appears to me that if the larger part of a nation supports this criminal war; the whole nation is lacking of “professional values” or a MORAL COMPASS for a better word..
I agree this is a war against Russia all of Russia and it is a war against the world - We should all be involved now like last time and we need to stop it.
Putrid should be enouraged to take complete control of everything, including leading the next Russian attack from the front. That's true leadership - usually doesn't last long but go for it Vlad the world supports your leadership - especially the last bit.
I sort of remember a WWII leader doing this and his failed ambition ended with his suicide in a bunker. History repeats! May Putin follow his lead soon.
More likely, Zelensky, living in a London penthouse ,spending summers on his Tuscany property , and winters in the mountains of Bavaria. Courtesy of the billions furnished by the west.
The US learned the hard way in Vietnam that you NEVER EVER, let the politicians in the rear run a war. All that's good for is high casualty figures. Your own casualties!!!
“The world is in more peril from those who tolerate evil or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.” -Dr. Albert Einstein, March 30 1953
Your mind is formed by western propaganda. No mention of oppression and war in Palestine, Yemen or Ethiopia but we should all be rooting for a proxy war in Ukraine.
Two things that come to mind, putin reminds me of Hitler towards the end of WW2. A corporal overriding his Generals. Also, My Lai Vietnam, war crimes with 'ordinary' soldiers killing innocent people.
Private. He wasn't even a corporal. Gefreiter is like a US Private 1st Class. The corporal nonsense was started by the Brits where the very first promotion of a soldier is to Corporal. A Brit corporal isn't any kind of NCO, it's just a glorified grunt.
@Helen Smith Do tell, is it Western Sympathies? Ah yes, because people definitely want to live under a regime governed by a narcissistic, dusty old bag who should be on a pension fund.
Hitler did the same thing during World War Two. And after the war his generals blamed him for not winning that war. Let's hope that will be the fate of Putin too...
Ultimately Hitler went to France. Don't rhink the Russian Offensive won't end up like a Bolshoi. That puts this war uncomfortably close to US Maritime waters.
@Helen Smith You're crazy! He is a Jew and he is doing a very good job as a wartime president, not interfering with military matters. Or are you one of those Russians who claim Hitler was a Jew too?
There are many reports of russian commanders killing conscripts who don't follow orders. It's not just a possibility that he might get punished, it's very likely that he gets killed by his own men if he doesn't obey. Of course, that should not be an excuse for his deeds, but saying he could freely choose is just not true.
Isn't it Much, MUCH better to be killed, whilst you are protecting an innocent stranger, than to become the murderer of that stranger? Don't people know there actually is a heaven and hell, and that murderers go to the latter one? And how nice is the current life on earth for this young man now? He'll have to live with the fact, that he knows that he is nothing but an evil and vile murderer.
@@gardenjoy5223 Drunk driver killed my daughter. Justice is impossible. Yes, this young man put Christ on the cross, like the rest of us, and perhaps more so than some of us. Like my daughter's killer, a young man, this young man needs to do some time in prison, but then learn to be a good worker, husband and father, and make his country a better place. That would be decent and honorable penance in my mind.
If that's the case then it's no longer and excuse but a fact. Therfore these soldiers are innocent and those who told them to do that are responsible fully. It's only right to prosecute them if they have a choice, but when they didnt then its abhorrent to do so
@Helen Smith why don't you open your eyes and see all the human trash you are defending? It's disgusting you try to defend this invading army of murderer, rapers, looters, and baby killers.
The world cannot let Russia get away with its war crimes. Justice must be done for the people of Ukraine. As long as Russia retains their illegal occupation of Ukraine territories the sanctions should get higher and higher until Russia is bankrupt. Russia has to leave all of Ukraine including crimea, as they violated international laws and with their criminal government raped, killed and stole from the Ukrainian people.
I agree 1000%. Problem is russia doesn't care about international laws and war crimes. They just want to cause as much damage as they can, no matter what. Like was said in the piece... nothing will be gained if everything is destroyed. russia will have wasteland to show for their stupidity. Slava Ukraine!!!
Can American taxpayers sue somebody for 'conning' us into unnecessary military expenditures? Can defense contractors be charged for intentional cost overruns on military contracts? And what about all those elected officials who 'pushed' for unnecessary defense spending? Who will be America's next enemy?
Young soldiers that have committed these crimes are emotionally destroyed for life. While that in no way exonerates them for the choices they have made, it illustrates that Putin has no regard for humanity, even of his own people. This is a tragedy on so many levels.
This is very important what the general said. The boy may be looking humble and expressing remorse in the court , but the fact is they" killed, raped and looted". This trial is just a drop in the ocean. There are hundreds of atrocious murders where people who did this must be taken to responsibility. What about Bucha, Borodianka ? Will they say that they were ordered to tight their hands and murder the civilians ? All of a sudden it is the generals who ordered are responsible, not the people who actually murdered them. This is nonsense. Russians are ruthless and cruel. They did the same thing as during WWII. They haven't changed a bit.
@@isubtothebest6020 what the hell has that got to do with what's happening now? .. should we also reserve that kind of ridiculous thinking towards the modern day German people? What a stupid, naive infantile comment. Grow up!
In our military by contrast, our members are trained to be thinkers as well as fighters. What Russian generals are tasked with; the US military gives those tasks to more junior officers. But what the Russians really lack is a dedicated Corps of NCOs, the institutional glue of any military. If Officers were the brains, and the Enlistees the muscles, the NCOs are the vital organs.
Don't delude yourself - US did worse in Afghanistan and Iraq, when are the war crime trails for US soldiers going to begin? Pot calling the Kettle black!
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"...if they (Russia) turn this territory they take into a *wasteland* then *what does Russia gain?* - They gain that Ukraine will be too devastated to be of any value to NATO. A devastated country with a devastated economy can't field a military of NATO standards. I believe that's an ultimate goal of Putin here.
Putin does not impress me as a leader one bit. Lt. General Hertling impresses me very much with all his knowledge and speaks very well on CNN News. Thank you Sir.
According to this report, Putin is doing the same as Hitler, sticking his beak into tactical affairs best left to those closer to the action and more qualified to judge and act upon it.
....ironically, those that are in the field are also lacking in common sense on how to accomplish their missions. Most have been promoted or elevated to those positions because of family or business connections.
For sure. The epitome of narcissistic control freaks who guard their power so jealously that, in lieu of trusting their generals enough to delegate, they take the reins directly and, through incompetence, doom their war effort.
@Helen Smith Happy innocent civilians are bring murdered in their thousands by war criminals?Thanks for letting the world know what kind of person you are. Nice to have signs pointing out where the trash is.
This segment reminds me of the CNN before it became so ideologically polarized. If they just promoted this kind of reporting and news centered lines of questioning, they might actually develop a real subscriber base.
Utter nonsense. You know that if you are floating in space and a meteor whizzes past, it's impossible to tell if the meteor is actually moving or if it's you. Likewise, the mainstreaming of radicalized right wing news sources (Fox is the chief offender) make it appear as though CNN has shifted. Resisting creeping fascist white nationalism is not polarization, it's a moral imperative.
@@jeffsmith1798 let me describe the current polarization in the USA. The right (under the defacto leadership of Trump): admires Putin, Kim, Duterte, Orban, as political models. The "extremist" left: admires Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, as political models.
"I don't care about a limited incursion" - Brandon. We didn't have all these problems with everything going into the dumpster with President Donald Trump. Grow up and educate yourself.
And the more coverage this war gets, the more the wider world realises some of the things that went on courtesy of Stalin and under the USSR banner. Shocking the number of people killed, “disappeared”, interred in gulags, enslaved … no wonder European countries are so twitchy about politics, but also lots of division there.
You Ukrainian neo-Nazis are making people lack infant formula, Gas and fuel prices are rising, inflation is severe. Don't make us sicker of you. Why are you guys on the American media thread to provoke. Go home and fill your ONLINE TV with your babbles.
He is so young. I looked like that when I became a SGT in the Army. So difficult to imagine myself in his predicament. I had been taught the concept of illegal orderrs but a young soldier can so easily be shamed or bullied into committing war crimes as I saw during Vietnam. The Mei Lai massacre is a very good example. Young inexperienced Officer pushing very angry and pumped up bunch of guys wiyh the average age of around und 20 yrs old. I am not excusing his actions but there were cases of squadmates pushing and ordering the newbies to participate in crimes of war, I was considered very mature at 21. I was a good soldier and made rank fast and was given my strpes very quickly but I remember so well that soldiers even 4 or 5 years older and especially those who had been to the Nam seemed and looked older and so "aged" that given order to do wrong in the heat of battle would be soul and gut wrencking moment..
I agree. Something to consider is that while in the US military, a disobeyed order might land you in jail or at least getting yelled at and ridiculed, in the Russian military would likely get you killed. Can one really demand some 18 year old kid to do such a sacrifice, to rather be killed than to kill another? I feel that many people who comment on stories like this fail to realise that Putin's Russia isn't like the US or Sweden where I come from. You can't just refuse or say that it's illegal. The whole political system setup by Putin is illegal and corrupt. If he followed laws, he shouldn't rig elections, assassinate journalists and dissidents, invade countries, bomb civilians, censor media. When the whole operation in Ukraine is one big illegal mess, can we really blame a young conscript for doing the thing he did?
I could imagine being under some type of a pressure. But What about mass brutal rapes russian soldiers are committing in ukraine? Brutal rapes, toddlers, men women babies old men everyone. Stress? Nuh rotten nation they are, a nation that raised these monsters since it is not just some individual cases. And then you catch them and they are crying saying that they didn’t want to do it….right
Just wanted to chime in and say thank you for your service in the US armed forces and in Vietnam. I know many Vietnamese families who's older people were saved by US troops service and action in Vietnam and then their children are doing great things in our nation.
This needed to be said. I was a Marine at the age of 18. I can see myself just looking at him. I have to trust in Ukraine to do a better service to him, than his own country ever would.
It's not just shaming or bullying. Russian officers were killing young soldiers who didn't follow orders to kill civilians and prisoners. In one case with a grenade. That doesn't change the guilt for killing a civilian but it should be considered when sentencing him.
I have NOT heard a word spoken about the folks who were called separatist. Did they join the Russian's? Killed for their efforts? Given a medal? Are their homes spared? What?
