Originally Posted by
meleagertoo
The very best thing NATO could do now would be to take those prisoners to W Europe and treat them lavishly - yes, lavishly with Western food, medicines, accommodation and kindness.
The benefit of tens of thousands returning to Russia with that story would be worth ten dollars to the cent in terms of cost to us.
An utterly unique opportunity to gain an immeassurable moral and political victory over Russia.
Perhaps. But recall how Stalin treated many returning Great Patriotic War (WW2) POWs - as "traitors and collaborators" for having failed to fight to the death, and as "contaminated" by exposure to the West.
Whether Putin will do the same, each of us must guess for ourselves.