Until very recently, I was an IC/PMI for a governemt client. I have a lot of friends in the business who were - mostly jokingly -forwarding ads fron headhunters looking for people to go to Ukraine.
We all laughed. Nobody I know or know of would touch it. The money was *outstanding*, but nobody who's been in the biz is THAT dumb.
The occasional guys I've seen in reports doing it (or getting caught or killed) look like scrubs and d-bags. Nobody knows any of them.
Which brings up even another point.
The fact that some of these dudes Ukraine hired with our money essentially, who we let go there, and who were getting pumped up by a Western MSM (which is now cooling off on this topic - reality is settling in)... were “imbeciles” makes one ask if they are entirely responsible.
We don't let kids enter into legally binding contracts either.
If you dig around you'll see that a lot of these guys/gals that went there had go-cams mounted to their helmet, blogging about every detail daily (including where they are at - images of peers, equipment, defensive perimeters...).
Really? https://pipanews.com/brazilian-model-joins-ukraines-military-as-deadly-sniper-killed-after-destroying-russian-missile-bunker/ You can't make that up!
Sure, they give themselves titles like “elite commando sniper” and head into a war zone with the Russians but are essentially clueless. Not going to end well. I bet some of these folks didn't even truly consider what would happen if taken prisoner, let alone the idea that they may get killed (after all, only the Russians are dying).
The point I'm trying to make is that these are folks that had no clue about what they were getting themselves into. The Western MSM sounded like a Nazi news real from 1944 (Where they were screaming “we are winning on all fronts” over the radio). You had talk about Ukraine invading Russia, taking the Crimea back... Obviously this wasn't a very dangerous endeavor because those cross eyed mentally retarded Russians led by the Asperger's suffering Putin can't possibly be hard to deal with. I mean, just look at the casualty statistics that were being reported early on (which also has faded away)... Ukraine is kicking ass and winning! Hahaha
https://nypost.com/2022/06/17/ex-marine-grady-kurpasi-named-as-third-us-vet-missing-in-ukraine/
We all know who the Russian blogger is mentioned in the above article: Intel Slava Z
Sadly, that is one of the few places you can actually get news from the Russian perspective, since in our free speech, open minded, tolerant and inclusive society we have all but censored anything which does not fit a defined narrative. I'm sure some of the guys going there have a clue, but many that went there didn't.
Notice how quiet the White House is on this topic?
Notice how quiet the MSM (MSNBC, CNN, NYT’s) is on this topic?
Some interesting statistics:
https://exxpress.at/media/2022/06/image-1.jpg
https://exxpress.at/media/2022/06/img-9658.jpg
We have 214 dead Americans. We have American prisoners that are facing the death penalty. While the White House is silent and the MSM isn't asking any questions.
And this is the sad part: where were the Republicans? Why did they not question the necessity of NATO admission by Ukraine? Why did they not question some of the policies of this administration which for example allowed these people to travel there easily to fight as a de facto mercenary? This was an opportune chance to practice opposition politics, no differently than the Democrats did with Iraq, only with Ukraine you actually had legitimate points to question and they stayed silent.
