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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 71 points 5 months ago

reddit-logo was a big enabler of now dead suckers.

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 61 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Those stories of the 1st Armored Reddit Brigade fucking posting their locations and then getting ganked are still funny

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 43 points 5 months ago

a roach motel for nazis

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 62 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Weren't a bunch of them Iraq vets who thought this war was going to be another one where they'd sit on a base, eating XBox and playing Burger King while remote bombing people who had no artillery or aircraft

EDIT: I switched "playing" and "eating" but I'm not going to fix it

EDIT 2: Of fucking course lmao

The new Bolivar Battalion, for example, was formed by fighters from Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina, and Colombia and was is led by a Venezuelan anti-government fighter.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 55 points 5 months ago

lol yeah, these imbeciles thought they'd get to go on a safari hunting Russians

[-] CommCat@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago

I remember reading an Iraq vet returning from Ukraine and he was shocked that it wasn't so easy like fighting in Iraq lol

[-] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

eating XBox and playing Burger King

I honestly thought you did this on purpose as a joke

[-] Leon_Frotsky@hexbear.net 59 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

After 2 bruising years, many US volunteers are disillusioned or dead.

officer-down

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.

[-] Comp4@hexbear.net 57 points 5 months ago

I cant imagine fighting for money "even" if the payday was great.

[-] Omniraptor@hexbear.net 38 points 5 months ago

I mean isn't that how all militaries work, unless they rely on a draft? Even on the Russian side a very large portion of the expeditionary force is contract troops and PMCs (at least before the Wagner kerfuffle), not conscripts .

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 16 points 5 months ago

professional regulars aren't usually paid very well, its better and more stable than the prospect of un/underemployment, but they have to rely on benefits & patriotic claptrap as well.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 38 points 5 months ago

that's cause you're not a psycho

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 5 months ago

Remember these people have internalized russophobia to a degree that makes them believe they're saving western civilization or some grandiose mission like that.

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 30 points 5 months ago

I can imagine other people doing it if you have the skillset, I mean pay can be pretty good but then I'm kind of wondering why go to an actual dangerous War instead of shooting at somali fisherman or just random people in the middle east somewhere

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 5 months ago

These are psychos that love war, and are very likely chasing some sort of war high.

[-] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This is why contracting after service is so popular among these kinds of guys. You do the same imperialism like in the military but make way more money.

[-] footfaults@hexbear.net 26 points 5 months ago

It's a great "grift" during peacetime.

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 55 points 5 months ago

Based ukraine making denazification easier by bringing fascists from all around the world to get whacked.

[-] asg101@hexbear.net 43 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Sephitard9001@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago

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

[-] asg101@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 38 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I posted a picture of brace-watching 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

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 28 points 5 months ago

lmfao I bet there are a ton of people scamming gullible imbeciles like that

[-] rio@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 38 points 5 months ago

did-someone awww, did someone think they were an action hero?

[-] footfaults@hexbear.net 36 points 5 months ago

We need an emoji for Jeremy Clarkson doing the sarcastic "oh no!" Voice

[-] GrumpigPoopBalls@hexbear.net 31 points 5 months ago
[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 29 points 5 months ago
[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

[-] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 19 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 18 points 5 months ago

It added the one thing that prevented Unite The Right from being good: lots of inbound airstrikes and artillery

[-] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 26 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Full Metal Jacket but instead of the drill sergeant getting shot, the whole platoon gets blown up

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