I am a news junkie and I follow dozens of news sources every day, but I do not remember having seen any reports covering this subject. Well I do not follow closely leftist media like Guardian, Washington Compost, or New York times, perhaps they covered this subject and it escaped me.
Would it not be obvious to try such messaging campaigns by radio, dropped leaflets, megaphones and other means to explain to the Russian soldiers that they are fighting for the wrong cause and to encourage them to surrender. This has been actively done in other prior wars.
Would it not make a lot of sense, since it is reported almost on a daily basis that the moral of the Russian soldiers is low. Their support with food, clothing, materiel is lacking etc. They are being treated by their commanders as cannon fodder etc.
We learn now and then that Russian soldiers have surrendered, because they disagree with this war etc. How many? How often?
Here are a few questions about such messaging campaigns:
- Is this topic so irrelevant that nobody cares to report about it?
- Are these messaging campaigns so secret that we are not supposed to learn about them?
- Was this approach tried, but it did not succeed or failed for some reason?
- Do we assume that the many Russian mercenaries or released prisoners turned soldiers are not susceptible to such campaigns?
- Would it not be a lot cheaper and save many lives if we promised every surrendered Russian soldier a new life in a Western country with financial support etc.
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