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Yes but also recognize the military is below oligarchs and the local mafias in power. They regularly extort money from them and, sadly, rape them too. Being in the russian army is just ditch-digger with uniforms.
In part because a powerful military is a threat to Pooty-poot. Anyone who’s competent has to act otherwise to get promoted, and competent-and-famous military men are inevitably suicided for the same reason. Corruption, as it turns out, is bad.
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