This @ChrisO_wiki thread is very useful in explaining the Russian volunteer experience in Ukraine.
Read the whole thing.
I'm going to highlight a portion of it for the long term medical/cultural implications for Russia.
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Read the whole thing.
I'm going to highlight a portion of it for the long term medical/cultural implications for Russia.
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https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1638449754324586499
Specifically I'm going to underline the issue of traumatic brain injury.
It is a ubiquitous & almost universal wound infantry suffer in an artillery heavy war.
And because it is internal, it is the most misdiagnosed.
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It is a ubiquitous & almost universal wound infantry suffer in an artillery heavy war.
And because it is internal, it is the most misdiagnosed.
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https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1638449763283611648
I've gone into what TBI is previously on the Twitter platform.
See:
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See:
https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1532823292477857792
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And I made the point that we didn't have a clue as to how either Ukraine or Russia would treat it's TBI wounded.
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https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1532823295598510080
Well, @ChrisO_wiki 🧵 just applied the "clue-by-four." Russia not only isn't treating TBI's as wounds.
It is treating TBI as 'malingering' or cowardice & trying to throw it's TBI wounded back into the meat grinder.
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It is treating TBI as 'malingering' or cowardice & trying to throw it's TBI wounded back into the meat grinder.
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A TBI wound caused by blast over pressure will of course get much worse if the man involved is put back in that same artillery heavy environment.
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https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1573783509482733573
Short form:
These actions by the Russian Federation @ChrisO_wiki translated in his thread are a military policy death sentence for Russia's TBI wounded put back on the front lines.
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These actions by the Russian Federation @ChrisO_wiki translated in his thread are a military policy death sentence for Russia's TBI wounded put back on the front lines.
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And this refusal of the Russian Federation to recognize TBI as a wound has horrid implications for the long term medical care of its surviving veterans, likely to be the last waves of Mobiks before the war's armistice is signed.
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The violent/mentally ill/homeless Vietnam paradigm of the 1970's and 1980's came from misdiagnosis of TBI.
Too be fair, this was before the advent of medical MRI scanning technology revealed the organic trauma injuries to the brain.
You can't know what you don't know.🤷♂️
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Too be fair, this was before the advent of medical MRI scanning technology revealed the organic trauma injuries to the brain.
You can't know what you don't know.🤷♂️
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This isn't true for Russia's TBI wounded.
We know very well where this is going for them.
The Russian state will not properly treat their war wounds. So their veterans will self-medicate with alcohol and other harder drugs.
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We know very well where this is going for them.
The Russian state will not properly treat their war wounds. So their veterans will self-medicate with alcohol and other harder drugs.
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Russia's coming 'war on drugs' will in fact be a war on it's TBI wounded. Just like the Soviet state did to its Afghan veterans.
Except, the cultural dysfunction caused by this repression of the TBI wounded will be orders of magnitude larger.
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Except, the cultural dysfunction caused by this repression of the TBI wounded will be orders of magnitude larger.
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Simply because there will be an orders of magnitude larger TBI wounded veteran population to deal with.
At a guess, the social costs of this will knock at least 1% of possible GDP growth a year, for the next 25 years, from the Russian economy.
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At a guess, the social costs of this will knock at least 1% of possible GDP growth a year, for the next 25 years, from the Russian economy.
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The longer the Russo-Ukrainian War goes on.
The bigger this TBI based long term social costs will be on the Russian people & state.
And if Russian birth rates are bad now, consider what a longer war with a million plus battle casualties will mean for Russia.
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The bigger this TBI based long term social costs will be on the Russian people & state.
And if Russian birth rates are bad now, consider what a longer war with a million plus battle casualties will mean for Russia.
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I think the future story of Russia's fall from the ranks of "great powers" has been written.
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