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Ukraine was a magnet for foreign fighters. After 2 bruising years, many are disillusioned or dead.
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Those stories of the 1st Armored Reddit Brigade fucking posting their locations and then getting ganked are still funny
a roach motel for nazis
After 2 bruising years, many US volunteers are disillusioned or dead.
Like boo fucking hoo, the vast majority of these guys were war criminals who thought this would just be like when they got to gun down Iraqis in the 2000s again, and the rest were wannabe sexpats and war tourists (and the article even says as much). The only ones I feel sympathy for are the dumb redditors who got caught up in all the propaganda about how they were saving democracy or something and volunteered only to get used up as cannon fodder in their first two weeks.
Based ukraine making denazification easier by bringing fascists from all around the world to get whacked.
As always, Phil Ochs called it back in 1968, from "Is There Anybody Here?"
Is there anybody here who thinks that following
The orders takes away the blame
Is there anybody here who wouldn't
Mind a murder by another name
Thanks for saying this, I was trying to find another one of his great songs a few days ago and couldn't remember his name
My pleasure, there is not a day goes by that I am not reminded of one of Phil's songs. It is just so damned bad he is not still around to crank out new ones. But the old ones still work fine too. Kinda sad to see that not much has really changed.
I posted a picture of 
on reddit with an AK and saying that I’ve landed in Ukraine and ready to fight the ruzzians. I got like 3 DMs from benefactors saying that if I need money for supplies, just hit them up. I should’ve done it but didn’t know how to keep it anonymous lol
lmfao I bet there are a ton of people scamming gullible imbeciles like that
Ask them to buy your dog tag NFTs. Your whole unit is selling them. Poor Vlodomyr the war hero is even making an NFT of his Slava of Bravery award, that one costs triple.
awww, did someone think they were an action hero?
I said at the beginning of this war that I was afraid the conflict would be like a Unite the Right but for the whole of europe, an opportunity for fascist elements to rally together, and in this case be armed and trained alongside each other and gain combat experience, and then return to their countries ready to form fascist cells locally
Did it end up that they just mostly died or were maimed or defeated? Guess it depends how many fled
I was also afraid of this, but honestly it probably produced a lot less than you might suspect. A lot of these guys are dead and many of them left after the initial bombing of the Reddit brigade pretty early in the war. The ones that have stuck it out are guys who already had military experience. I’m sure there are guys who really cut their teeth in Ukraine, but it’s probably not as many as one would think imho. Ukraine in a way is probably the death of the over abundance of special operations guys in the west.
Looking forward to the film where the Bazinga Brigades are made to look super heroic, Mark Wahlberg and Tom Holland are just waiting for their agents to call.
Full Metal Jacket but instead of the drill sergeant getting shot, the whole platoon gets blown up