Posted on 04/24/2024 1:54:38 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
YIV, Apr 24 (AFP): Last month Pavlo Petrychenko, a junior sergeant in the Ukrainian army, issued a stark warning to President Volodymyr Zelensky about a dangerous vice sweeping the military.
A surge in online gambling among serving soldiers has seen many lose their entire salaries, he said, pushing them and their families into debt.
Some were even selling off army drones and thermal imaging cameras to feed addictions, compromising their own safety for a long-shot chance to strike it rich.
Exhausted by more than two years of war, campaigners say online gambling is rife in the Ukrainian armed forces, a coping mechanism and dopamine hit for fighters under constant fire and far from home, their families and loved ones.
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Gambling has always been a staple for soldiers at war. This is nothing new.
Memo: they’re also know to drink and carouse. Please be sure to post some breathlessly outraged article whining about that too.
Ukraine says a third of Russian warships in the Black Sea have been destroyed or disabled
What the hell would you know about it ?!
They bet that Ukraine will lose, surrender to the Russians, go East and collect their winnings!
On the other hand, the Russians live on cold showers, pure thoughts and harmonious songs about the motherland.
Dear AlterKaker, get back to us after your Biden-Schumer team doesn’t finally lose it’s a$$.
btw your tag says everything we need to know about your intelligence
“What the hell would you know about it ?!”
My husband served 25 years in the USMC and this time two weeks ago I was visiting his friends at Twentynine Palms. I’m also a voracious reader and when I married my husband I tore through his library of books and learned a lot.
He died last October.
You humble me. I should have known that. Kudos to you!
And vodka.
The key takeaway here is that there are still Ukrainian soldiers.
Ukraine ping
Webheart: [The key takeaway here is that there are still Ukrainian soldiers.]
Maybe the Russians can get their hacker crew to send pics of Russian Babes to the Ukrainian troops to catfish money out of them?
are holding back
lol 😂
“Maybe the Russians can get their hacker crew to send pics of Russian Babes to the Ukrainian troops to catfish money out of them?”
Truth be told, the Russians have some amazingly beautiful women and paradoxically they also have some of the most amazingly repulsive men I’ve ever seen.
The death of Alexei Navalny was a tragedy for the future of the Russian gene pool. He was kind of cute. Obviously he had some Swedish ancestry in him where he his face didn’t look like the hind end of a pit bull.
Ha! Not when the money they're pi$$ing away gambling comes from another country (US)....
“ Truth be told, the Russians have some amazingly beautiful women”
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To be fair, so do the Ukrainians. This whole war BUSINESS makes me sick with all the human suffering on both sides. And that’s beyond the disgust I feel at the huge American national debt that is being run up.
Roman Soldiers were not from Israel.
A pretty weak argument when you have to go back that far to squeak out a point.... :0)
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