The torture of the arrested terrorists who committed the massacre in Moscow's Crocus City Hall was the message of the Russian authorities to the West - We can do things you cannot.
The purpose behind broadcasting the footage of the arrested extremist was to appease the furious domestic public. The members of the special forces allegedly severed his ear and forced him to eat it. The video aimed to shock and frighten people and politicians in the West with its brutality.
It is hard to know if this happened or not. Nevertheless, the ear episode was an excellent manifestation of Russian unimaginable cruelty and deviant characteristics.
Did anyone notice, while watching a video, how effortlessly that torture went? Did anyone think about how many times Ukrainian POWs underwent similar or worse tortures?
How aware are people that beating or raping detainees is not something extraordinary in Russia's police stations?
Part of Russian culture
The torture of enemies is a part of Russian culture. Russian special forces are not only tough on terrorists but also on the Kremlin’s enemies, foreign and domestic.
Russian agents committed extrajudicial killings in London and Germany. It is the same regarding the Kremlin's critics at home. The torture of Alexei Navalny and other political prisoners was business as usual in Russia. The Russian army is currently conducting large-scale torture in Ukraine.
The West mostly neglected Russia's deviation. Even when 10 years ago, many Russian liberals warned of a significant increase in anger, cruelty and rage.
It is only a matter of time before the general culture of brutality and extreme violence cultivated by Vladimir Putin would break out of Russia's borders
It is only a matter of time before the general culture of brutality and extreme violence cultivated by Vladimir Putin would break out of Russia's borders and jeopardise other countries.
Unfortunately, the prophecies regarding Russia’s inevitable despotic and violent insanity, which the Western-oriented Russians warned about, were confirmed to be true after the Russian army attacked Ukraine and started committing horrific crimes and tortures.
A population of super-brutal people
Vladimir Putin has been in power for such a long time that he has been able to breed a population of the super violent Russians who sincerely despise the West, democracy and Western values.
In this respect, there is no clear distinction between the domestic guardsmen of Putin’s regime and those who fight in Ukraine.
That special forces operative who severed the terrorist’s ear might have served on the Ukrainian frontline and done the same before.
The skilful propaganda industry, in conjunction with generous reimbursements and compensation plans for the regime’s guardsmen, enabled Putin to create an army of deviants and sadists currently fighting in Ukraine and terrorising the people of Russia.
Putin will now intensify satisfying the domestic public by using his service organisations
Putin will now intensify satisfying the domestic public by using his service organisations. However, there is a limit to what he can do to the Russian people.
The majority of Russians show symptoms of Stockholm syndrome, that is, the relationship of hostages with those who abducted them in their attitude towards the Kremlin.
He is skilled and experienced enough to decide not to have murderers and torturers back in Russia. That is why Putin will find a new target for his guardsmen elsewhere, but not in Russia.
Exporting torture
Where will his army go after Ukraine if it succeeds there? Poland? The Baltic States? Moldova? Finland or perhaps Sweden? At the same time, Putin is doing an excellent job driving Europeans from Africa.
Has anybody ever wondered why Vladimir Putin is so successful in Africa? Unlike the Western democracies, he is not constrained by rules.
Putin will eventually relocate veterans and thousands of Russian servicemen from the frontline to the countries he wants to victimise and conquer
Fake news, killing of opponents, hostile takeover of power, corruption and torture – are the methods Putin has been successfully using in Africa and other parts of the globe.
Therefore, Putin will eventually relocate veterans and thousands of Russian servicemen from the frontline to the countries he wants to victimise and conquer.
Vladimir Putin will not want them home in Russia. He will dispatch them elsewhere.
It will enable him to maintain not only the needed level of peaceful order in Russia but also to keep the Russian patriotic majority busy following how their leader successfully challenges “the satanic and decadent Western civilisation” in Russian news outlets.
