“Vagner is a cruel fellow,” one of the Vagner commanders told RFE/RL. “He’s no fool.” The man added that Vagner has a swastika tattooed on his shoulder, wears a helmet with horns, and practices a form of paganism, a description that RFE/RL could not confirm.
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The Vagner fighters know that they mustn’t be taken prisoner. And their IS foes know it, too.
“It is the kind of war without ceremony,” one commander said. “Everyone knows perfectly well that being captured means death by torture.”
“I have specialists who remove eyes,” he added. “They take a spoon and dig around up and down until the eyeballs are just dangling there.”
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“If we have to fight with America, we will win,” he said. “They don’t know how to fight. As Putin said, you can invent all sorts of missiles, but you can’t invent people like we have. Our people — they know how to sacrifice themselves.”
https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-mercenaries-vagner-commanders-syria/29100402.html
I am more than happy to have as many Russians as possible sacrifice themselves.
My father served under:
— George S. Patton Jr.
“No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.”