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Critical support to Biden in his effort to turn western mercenaries into mush
Do y'all remember what happened when US vets fought in Ukraine? These goons are toast against a real military.
I have bits and pieces of news (ironically) but I don't have a whole picture of their fate.
Broadly speaking, many of them went in with the tacit assumption that the propaganda was all true (Russians 'astounded' by paved roads, constantly deserting, poorly equipped, etc), then when they actually started fighting they realized
A. That was horseshit (obviously) and
B. What happens when they're on the side that doesn't have air and armor superiority
There was a big post back when it started by some
American pmc clown that posted about how his 'barracks' got bombed and how a ton of them were dead
I remember the chud barracks incident, but it's hard to dig up actual links from so long ago.
search being slopping piles of manure doesn't help.
I think this is the guy, although the account is long deleted. ~~he had Medic or something in his username~~ He was going by u/spindokto and made a few posts over the Reddit Brigade saga
https://old.reddit.com/r/volunteersForUkraine/comments/tdmxqs/proof_for_everyone_in_denial/
(new and improved link; you lose all the dumbass reddit comments, but you can look at the pics he posted and his profile using waybackmachine link)
https://web.archive.org/web/20220314023107/https://old.reddit.com/r/volunteersForUkraine/comments/tdmxqs/proof_for_everyone_in_denial/
This was the 3rd or 4th post IIRC, directly after the Foreign Legion barracks got Iskander'd (or was it Kinzhal'd? I don't remember) and he was telling people to stay the fuck away because these weren't "a bunch of insurgents with AKs and Toyotas"
E) and for future reference, sometimes it's easier to search here for reddit posts as they get submitted to dunktank or whatever. That's how I got here, searching Hexbear comments for "Reddit Brigade" to find relevant thread, then look for reddit links in those threads.
E2) IIRC the next parts of his saga were admitting on reddit he and some other guys were going to disguise themselves as red cross to sneak out of the country. I don't think anyone here ever really kept tabs on them after that. Haven't been able to track down newer posts so far but I'm also losing interest so
)
The reddit volunteers that got blown up were just random idiots with no experience I believe. Whereas the ex military and mercenaries who realized they were too weak were smart enough to go back home to their comfortable lives after the first bomb dropped
A real Reddit post from 2022
Its so funny that some angloid (i presume) thinks his rudimentary Russian skills will be useful to a bunch of people who have intermingled with Russia for centuries.
This is basically how Taiwan is training their civilian militias lol. The term “reddit island” now makes more sense
Taiwan isn't doing it. It's some private venture. Literally no one here thinks China is going to invade. Nobody starts a war for face reasons.
There were alot of those guys yeah but also US vets in various capacity trying to find themselves another war. The guy I posted below was on of them and he mentions there being other US vets there "volunteering" with him.
No air superiority and fighting a peer adversary makes being a mercenary less like a video game and more like WW1 trench fighting.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraines-international-legion-is-still-fighting-but-not-many-left-2024-5
https://www.businessinsider.com/they-went-to-ukraine-to-be-war-heroes-and-fight-russians-2022-4
The stories from those that made it back were really hilarious. They were absolutely shocked to find out that fighting a professional army is nothing like hunting civilians in Afghanistan.