They posted geotagged videos of them playing orchestra music
I’m pretty sure that exact one got annihilated the next day
I believe the volunteer forces split into two groups, and they didn’t invite anyone who was a mall ninja to the second group. They didn’t want their lives to be trusted to the kind of people you’re talking about.
was a big enabler of now dead suckers.
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.
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.
I cant imagine fighting for money “even” if the payday was great.
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 .
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
