- 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.
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.
Don’t need a corps; just note that pregnant women get sent to the rear and let things sort themselves out.
are we just making shit up now?
I mean homie is just sharing thoughts not really making anything up
But you realize Putin is a human trafficker right???
If stealing kids is not below them, then how would this be?
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.
What, you’d be surprised if they press-ganged these women into sexual slavery? Really?
This is Russia we’re discussing here.
The Japanese did it during WW2. “Comfort Women”