After the Ukraine war … a report by Newsweek talks about the biggest threat that Putin will face

The American newspaper “Newsweek” reported that “Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that 2025 is” the year of the homeland defender “, but the soldiers who Putin wants to defend their homeland may pose a threat to his rule when they return from fighting against Ukraine. One of the security experts told the newspaper that the Kremlin may be threatened by the old warriors returning to civil life who may mention the Russian people of the huge human cost that the authorities have hidden.

One of Putin’s critics told the newspaper that the returning soldiers are not a direct danger to the system, but they may fed a wave of crime much worse than we witnessed after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
Afghanistan experience
According to the newspaper, “The Institute of War Studies said that these initiatives launched by the Kremlin over the past two years that support military service and submit that are also measures to keep old warriors under control. The institute said that the Kremlin is keen to prevent independent civil society groups from ancient warriors from the struggle for reintegration into society due to shocks, noting that Moscow wants to avoid repeating the social instability that followed its withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989, after a decade of its invasion. According to the institute, the Kremlin feared a new wave of “Afghan syndrome”, as the groups of old warriors known as “Afghanzi” are disappointed by the disappointment of the Soviet government to integrate old warriors with psychological trauma in society.
The newspaper said, “Seth Kromric, a former colonel in the American army and vice -head of the Customer Risk Department at the Security Company, Global Guardian, said:“ The returning forces pose a security threat, perhaps not in the near term, but they represent a serious, medium -long problem of Putin’s regime and any subsequent Russian government. ” The number of Russian victims and the details of the Kremlin -controlled war may become known on a wider scale, which nourishes discontent, which may not be compensated through any government program to celebrate the courage of old warriors. “When the truth and financial support are not provided to families, the real problems and social disorders will rise,” Chromech said. Over time, advertising will become hollow when the state is not able to provide services for the support of old warriors injured in the war in the coming years. ” He added: “As is the case in their Afghan campaign, the huge number of terrorists will be present on a daily basis in Russian life, and it is a permanent reminder of how Russia deceives its people.”
Fear of “crime wave”
According to the newspaper, “with the aim of strengthening the numbers of its forces in Ukraine, Russia offered the amnesty and freedom for a number of prisoners after six months of fighting. And when this deal was not available, it was reported that Sergey Kirinko, a official in the Russian presidential administration, briefed a government meeting in July 2024 that the veterans in Moscow“ are badly traded ”with civil life where the alarm rang about how crimes can be Old warriors cause civilians to the eyes of them. Kirinko said that the ancient Russian warriors from Ukraine face a society different from the forces of Afghan war or the Second World War because the Soviet society was more mobilized and in a better position to support or fight the conflict. He added that the return of Russian soldiers may be the “largest political and social dangerous factor” in the country during the period of Putin’s presidency.
The newspaper continued, “Constantin Sonin, the economist who was issued against him, said this month in Russia on charges of publishing false information about her army, said that old warriors do not pose a strong threat to Putin’s authority due to his commitment to finding new forces, but they pose other risks to Russian society. He added, “There will be a major crime wave, greater than the crime wave in the early 1990s. There will be much larger, up to 10 times, than ancient warriors compared to the post -Afghan war. They will be good training coaches on how to use weapons and their recruitment process will be easy by criminal groups. ”
The newspaper added, “The comparison between Moscow’s invasion of Afghanistan four decades ago and Putin’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 is still stuck in the minds. Moscow has entered into the two struggles, mistakenly that they would end quickly. In order to realize the ability of old warriors to promote or destabilize society, Moscow is keen to suppress the political movements that distort the reputation of the Russian authorities.