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Dude joins the Russian military to earn his place in Russian society and hopes to be seen as one of the Russians, is surprised that he gets treated like a Russian.
Also dude complains about migrants in the US wanting free handouts, goes to Russia and then complains that he doesn’t get special treatment.
Imagine fleeing "Western brainwashing" only to end up in a trench with five dudes and a ration pack, wondering if this is what true freedom smells like.
dude if someone wrote this for a movie people would say it's too on the nose.
moving to another country to avoid "indoctrination" is exactly what a movie character would do as a metaphor for inner struggle.
being sent to die for a fascistic country would be the metaphor for the idea that running away from your self by finding refuge in reactionary attitudes inevitably kills you inside.
and him having a bunch of gay sex with fellow russian conscripts on the front lines is a metaphor for, uh... well its a metaphor
Darwin thanks you for you service. Watch out for them drones!
Look how far someone will go to ignore that fact that he wants to kiss a man on the lips
DeAnna, 42, suggested her husband had been misled during the military recruiting process.
Surely not. Russian military recruiters have the same dedication to truth and honesty as US military recruiters.
He must love the smell of other sweaty guys.
Stop shoving yourself down that leopard's throat.
I guess he wanted to remain in a dictatorship, seems a sort of odd destination to me, pretty much guaranteed to be miserable even if he wasn't dumped into a combat, he could have gone to Cuba or something.
Cuba is a dictatorship of the working class, LGBT rights are enshrined in the constitution, the exact opposite of what any fascist who would fight for Russia (or Ukraine) wants.
Putin: lol front line for you.
Derek Huffman: Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
Let’s all shed some crocodile tears for this guy.
The Leopards are already so full, you can't keep feeding them like this.
That's truly horrible... Anyway.
So, unfortunately, he feels like he’s being thrown to the wolves right now, and he’s kind of having to lean on faith, and that’s what we’re all doing.”
Let’s us know how that works out for you.
after a month of service, her family had yet to receive any pay.
Not so well, then?
They will get paid in thoughts and prayers soon
Ukrainian officials estimated this week that more than 1 million Russian soldiers have died in the conflict
I just wanna call this out as misinfo. Ukraine's claimed numbers are casualties which includes killed and wounded. I don't know if Ukraine has any claim for number killed, but estimates are around 300k, though the fact that Russia sends soldiers on crutches to the front lines, some of those might be double counted.
This guy is the current definition of the Americanism "dumbass".
MAGA Twerp: "Better a Russian than a Democrat."
Sane People: "LOL k. Have fun being turned into drone made meat chowder."
I suppose he was going to get oppressed by american-made weapons either way. He's just speed running things.
LGBTQ+ HIMARS
Pronounced was/were.
Makes you wonder if they acknowledge how bad they messed up. Or is this fine because they escaped the woke. I love the part in the article that says they followed some other influencer trying to get people to move, but was only able to get this family and 1 other to do it. A lot of dumb choices here, its amazing how they somehow feel like they were wronged when they had to do a lot of choices to get to this point.
I'm sure the last thing to go through his head, other than a Ukrainian bullet, will be "at least I saved my family from being woke".
Pretty sad.
If you have to run from LGBT indoctrination then you are probably LGBT. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but if he had been honest with himself he might not die in a pointless war.
You're almost 100% right. This dudes so deep in the closet he moved to Russia. That's gay as fuck.
he is now sleeping among other sweaty guys.
If you can't speak Russian, you have no business in Russia. Very few of the people there can speak English at the level you would need to get by. And he actually believed he could join their military as a non-combatant foreigner during wartime? What a dumbass.
He complained in the article that immigrants in the United States don't assimilate. Yet he can't speak Russian. 🤔
I'm sure he has failed to see the irony in that.
Immigrants in the US won’t serve in the military for citizenship!
This pathway was closed by Trump.
I wanted to serve in the military to earn my citizenship, that way the local can’t say I didn’t earn it.
Gimme one of them non-combat roles though, I don’t want any of that war business. Which is all pointless because the second a Russian asks him “what role did you serve in the military?” He’d simply reply “huh, can you speak English?” I also love the idea of him believing he’d be a correspondent despite being unable to speak Russian. Im sure his wife and daughters will enjoy their time in Russia when his military career blossoms.
He moved to a country that was actively waging a war of aggression, and joined the military expecting not to see combat. If it seems like something only a complete dumbass would do, that's because it is.
It's worse, because this traitor dragged half his family into the war zone. I doubt they will live much longer.