https://www.businessinsider.com/western-fighters-die-in-ukraine-assume-be-easy-us-veteran-2024-5

  • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]
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    6 months ago

    Are there still new people going over!? IThere was a rush of people in the beginning who just did not understand what air superiority meant, but my video game-addled brain assumed that any current volunteers would have found their audio logs conveniently scattered on the way there.

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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      6 months ago

      They're mostly mercenaries now

      The stories of the First Armored Reddit Brigade did stamp down the idea that Call of Duty veterans can make a difference

      • Absolute@lemmygrad.ml
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        6 months ago

        The entire world of being a mercenary is so foreign to me I couldn't even imagine how to begin finding a job in the field, but surely there are better merc jobs out there at this moment than going to the meat grinder for a military notorious for not paying their mercenaries

        • Dolores [love/loves]
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          6 months ago

          start by being discharged from a regular army and wait for shady individuals/emails to hit you up. all the major companies aren't real 'soldiers of fortune' just disavowable government assets closely attached to a national army & using its retired personnel