“We offer Russian soldiers a choice: to die in an unjust war,” Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said recently, “or full amnesty and 5 million rubles of compensation if they put down their guns and voluntarily surrender to prison.”

This idea employs capitalism as a weapon. With Russia turning to hired guns from Chechnya and Syria, it seems only fair to outbid the Russian military for the services of their ground troops.