This guy was in our military?
Not long after recovering the fallen soldier, Le resigned from Ukraine’s legion of international volunteers.
He looks like he out ate his tank—or ate his tank.
It sure seems to be. They train, then go to war and fold almost immediately because their “souls get wounded”
I hope people like,him are the exception and not the norm! Otherwise our country is in deep doo doo militarily
Ukraine abruptly discharged the first volunteers who signed up for the unit after their mediocre performance in battle.
What a pussy.
He was lucky he didn’t get shot in the back on his way to safety.
“Physically I feel fine, but I also feel like I have these invisible wounds on my soul.”
That’s what I said at work last night. I almost quit my job so I could go home and eat ice cream with my cats. Some girl kicked me in the backside and got me to snap out of it. Temporarily.
Mercenaries = targets
This war stuff sucks - I wanted weekends off!
Reports are ubiquitous of low Russian morale.
The Ukrainians put out a reward for Russian soldiers to surrender tanks, and it is reported that one has now been surrendered.
A report that 300 Russian soldiers refused to obey an order to fight and withdrew with their equipment, in the Sumy region.
Strong men create good times.
Good times create weak men.
Weak men create tough times.
Tough times create strong men.
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We are entering the tough times created by weak men, of which this guy is a prime example. On our present course, we’re going to have a world war, and whether it goes nuclear or not, we’re going to need soldiers - real soldiers, like the guys who won WW2 and who held off the Chinese at Chosin Reservoir. I personally think that we’re going to have to pull from both organized gangs and the criminal element, people that would normally not be wanted at all. To control them, they’ll have to be offered something worthwhile (perhaps money, a clean record or “do this and you have a chance to live”), plus an ultra-tough group of DIs and officers with few restrictions on their actions. IOW, the Dirty Dozen on steroids (or Meth, take your pick). Tough times create strong men.
This guy was five years out from his service which is enough time to go soft. Back in the day I was an armor crewman in W Germany. I imagine in Afghanistan that tanks were not the best counter insurgency tool
He wanted the rush he did not get in service, That chance to see if he measured up. Not unnatural for troopers really. He got his rush without firing his weapon in anger and didn’t like it.
I never had to fire in anger or survival. As a young soldier we all were itching to go against Ivan just to alleviate the boredom around the kaserne. After decades of hindsight I say that I left the service before I could get shot at. I didn’t stick around for more years until Gulf War 1. I had buddies that did. They don’t talk about the road to Bashra.
For the most part individual soldiers are not particularly brave. They are just shooting and scrambling to quiet the guns on the other side for some peace and quiet themselves. There are standouts of course. Men who are true heroes not the fake heroes we have today.
I don’t know where to place this young man. He went to go see the elephant and lucky for him he can withdraw after having found his own line and limits. That has not been the case for all the others soldiers on all sides
I don’t know what to make of this conflict either. It didn’t have to happen. Russia plainly stated its case and position many years ago but the powers that be in the west refused to listen for whatever reason. The current conflict is the result. All unnecessary death is senseless whether it be in Ukraine or soon to be conflict in Taiwan
I can’t ad anything to these posts bc I feel the same way. snowflake comes to mind.
Lol, even Russian soldiers in Ukraine are yelling “Glory to Ukraine".
That fat body has no business in a war zone. Dude looks to be 100lbs overweight.
The guy has zero backbone. Something tells me he got a bit of GI-Joe big head, after pushing a pencil in his supposed service in Afghanistan... If what little he saw in Ukraine “scarred him” - then I have very little confidence he ever saw any real action in Afghanistan. He’s like the first person sent home from the reality TV show “Survivor” - by actually quitting the show... What a pansy.
We are supposed to believe that this soldier was determined to stop the Russians from conquering the Ukraine and was willing to risk his life and kill Russians to save the Ukraine.
Two weeks later all that has changed because of the hardship of retrieving one comrade’s body?
If this is the best we can expect, we have no future worth living.
Chicken shit