""Things Look Really Bad": Kremlin Has No Idea What to Do With Thousands of Soldiers Coming Home. - The Russian Dude

[TexasTowelie]

This video breaks down one of the most dangerous and least discussed consequences of Russia’s war in Ukraine: what happens when thousands of traumatized soldiers come home to a society that offers them impunity instead of rehabilitation. Since 2022, at least a thousand people inside Russia have been killed by returning servicemen, not on the battlefield but in homes, courtyards, and everyday civilian life. These crimes are often not driven by profit and are frequently committed by regular soldiers with no prior criminal records. Investigations are dropped, trials are suspended, and perpetrators are redeployed back to the front, turning murder into a bureaucratic inconvenience and sending a clear message that violence is forgiven if you are useful to the state. This creates a system where accountability disappears, domestic violence escalates, and society is forced to absorb the damage while the Kremlin protects the myth of the untouchable war hero.

The video explains how prolonged combat rewires the brain, why PTSD alone cannot explain the surge in violence, and how war-trained aggression, hypervigilance, and emotional blunting follow soldiers home. In Russia, stigma around mental health, lack of therapy, and the glorification of “toughness” leave families alone to deal with deeply damaged people, often with tragic results. As violence becomes normalized at home and in public, the line between war and peace begins to collapse. Looking ahead, the Kremlin itself fears the long-term impact of hundreds of thousands of veterans returning to an unprepared country. Without massive investment in rehabilitation, mental health care, monitoring, and real accountability, Russia risks long-term social decay, rising crime, broken families, and generational trauma. This video explores why the worst may still be ahead, why denial makes the problem far more dangerous, and why ignoring returning soldiers is a recipe for a much bigger internal crisis.

[Firestorm49]

1. Sadly, things aren't that much different right here in America. Republican as well as Democratic

administrations have offered lip service to returning veterans, but neither has done enough to address the health and mental well-being of returning service members. The money to treat PTSD, for example, gets tied up in appropriations and bureaucratic entanglement. Veteran suicides continue unabated. Veterans are living in shelters or under bridges because adequate help is just a pipe dream.

The situation in Russia may be more severe than in America, but we have a long way to go to provide assistance to those who have sacrificed their lives or well-being for their country. I find it appalling.