This war has reached the phase in many regions where many desperate civilians need to adopt to change and survive. It’s the phase where hard decisions have to be made at the realization that the war has been lost.
They now know that the washed out cross-dressing little trannie won’t be coming back... well not unless he wants to spend the rest of his life in the Black Dolphin, and will need to now start assisting the Russian military if they are to return to normality that will enable their survival.
It’s a turning phase, but a dangerous one where in some cases brother will turn against brother for it’s the phase where the opportunists will prosper while the nationalists will perish.