Or maybe you are begging to be trojan-horsed if you invite 2.6 million military-trained Russians into your borders.
The fact that they are military trained doesn’t seem like much of a problem (at least recently the new recruits seem to receive minimum training); maybe I am underestimating this. If Russia wants to send lots of FSB agents to EU, they can probably do it anyway.
But having 2.6 million new voters who grew up with Russian values, and would probably keep watching Russian media, that sounds like a possible problem. The fact that someone doesn’t want to die for Russia in a war doesn’t necessarily make him aligned with Western values.
The fact that they are military trained doesn’t seem like much of a problem (at least recently the new recruits seem to receive minimum training); maybe I am underestimating this. If Russia wants to send lots of FSB agents to EU, they can probably do it anyway.
But having 2.6 million new voters who grew up with Russian values, and would probably keep watching Russian media, that sounds like a possible problem. The fact that someone doesn’t want to die for Russia in a war doesn’t necessarily make him aligned with Western values.