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There is a good side of the more intense combat (and better payments). If you have any mental problems - the enemy will kill you. If you won a battle and returned home with a small fortune - you are a rich man and you don't need a shrink either (vodka and whores are much more effective). Anyway, Russian culture and Russian society are pretty weird and chronically traumatized, and always have been. It's OK to be not OK there.
And yes, there is another reason for SMO. They just can't allow themselves to lost twenty million Russians in Ukraine.
Doesn't really stop the fact that 35,000+ and 22,000 Wagner troops have died. That's pretty bad in itself. It's okay to not be okay, but then some of these will kill themselves... that's a problem for a country that's losing population and doesn't like immigration.