It really has not been going well for the Redditors over in Ukraine fighting for Fake Democracy on behalf of George Soros. It appears that having their entire training barracks getting completely blown up, being sent to the frontlines with no training, and having Russian aircraft buttfuck them from the skies with impunity gave them the collective cold shower of reality that these soyim have so desperately needed throughout their lives. I did make a mistake in that article though, as that subreddit is well and truly alive, with the seething of the delusional still going strong.
Well actually, not that strong anymore. The tone appears to have shifted from “fuck yes, kill for George Soros,” to “these people are idiots getting themselves and others killed.” The above post was in response to a training barracks getting blown up, with the poster blaming these people posting pictures on social media for giving their position away.
Of course, that might not actually be true. Yes, the social media pics are real, but apparently said barracks wasn’t secret anyway. In that case it shows the colossal incompetence of the Ukrainian military. Russia has shown they have the power to do missile strikes at any locations they want, in whatever parts of Ukraine they feel like. The obvious solution is to build some impromptu bases in the middle of nowhere, make them small, and hope that they don’t get discovered. Instead, the Ukraine Military opted for secret option B, which is to just pretend that Russia does not have the ability to destroy these targets.
Yavoriv Military Training Center
It does not appear to have worked as of yet, but the jury is still out on this strategy. Here’s a firsthand account of a Foreign Legion Volunteer who was at a different part of this base.
Early Sunday morning, an American veteran now in Ukraine was abruptly awakened by a Russian missile strike on the Yavoriv military training center, where he and other foreigners trying to join the International Legion of Territorial Defense were camped.
“I just remember waking up to my entire tent shaking and then everyone yelling as they ran through the door to the woods,” said the Army veteran, identified by Task & Purpose as “Hieu” at his request. “When I stepped out, I froze in shock for two seconds as I stared in disbelief at the pillar of fire behind the building in front of me. Hearing and seeing another missile impact shocked me back to reality and I ran into the woods away from structures.”
Hieu is one of several readers who responded after Task & Purpose asked veterans headed to, or already in Ukraine to tell their stories. He had only been in Ukraine for a few days when Russian forces launched missiles at Yavoriv, home of a former NATO training center, reportedly killing 35 people.
After he thought the missile attack was over, Hieu ran back into his tent, donned the gear that he had bought for Ukraine, including a helmet, plate carrier with ballistic plates, and an E-Tool. Then rushed towards one of the burning buildings at the training center to see if he could help anyone, he said. Then another missile struck in the distance, so he ran into the woods and began loading ammunition into his magazines to keep himself busy.
He went to Russia to get missile striked and do nothing. Solid work.
“I survived because the missiles struck the hard structures instead of the tents where I was,” Hieu said. “The Ukrainians offered to take anyone who didn’t want to keep fighting after the missile strike back to the border.”
Of the 23 volunteers that had been staying in his tent, only seven decided to remain, Hieu said, adding he chose to stay because he still believes in the Ukrainians and wants to help.
It’s getting harder and harder to not come across as ghoulish and enjoying the suffering of these types. I have to remind myself that there are occasionally good people fooled by propaganda, but that really only goes for the ones who remained. For the 16 others, they’re just the disgusting psychopaths who went to Ukraine to “kill me some Russians.” When it dawns on them that they are the ones who will be getting killed, suddenly they take a very dim view of dying for George Soros’ “democracy.”
So far, his journey to Ukraine has been much different from his last combat deployment to Afghanistan. While serving in the U.S. Army as a tanker, Hieu had the benefit of a substantial support apparatus, from maintenance to logistics. In terms of mission planning, there were operations and intel shops. Equipment was issued, transportation supplied, and all the other boxes that needed to be checked had someone, or an office, to check them. Very little, if any of that, exists among foreign volunteers in Ukraine. For instance, Hieu had to put together his own gear and crowdfund his travel expenses. He was issued an FNC F3 assault rifle with foldable stock when he arrived in Ukraine. Other volunteers have AK-47s and Special Operations Forces Combat Assault Rifles.
I know I just said this, but this is somewhere between tragic and hilarious. It’s like we’re trying to tick off all the boxes on the “about to get slaughtered by the enemy military,” checklist.
- A whole bunch of foreigners who might not even all speak English, let alone Ukrainian.
- Completely mismatched equipment, indicating at best strained logistics, at worst, non-existant.
- Confusing and ill-defined chain of command.
- Lack of transportation.
- Making soldiers pay their way to come out.
These people would be getting slaughtered even if Russia didn’t have complete and utter air supremacy. Which they get alongside massed artillery, cruise missiles, and SRBM’s. On the upside for the Ukrainians. Oh wait, there isn’t any upside, they’re fucked.
The quality of the international volunteers themselves varies widely, revealing how much better trained and prepared soldiers in the U.S. Army are compared to other nations’ militaries, he said.
Hold on a second. Let me take a closer look at this Hieu fellow.
Nice to see this chubster representing the superiority of the US Military. Also, it’s more like it shows the absolute clusterfuck of the Foreign Dilating Legion, but sure we’ll reframe this as if the US Military is some sort of world beating superpower that just accidentally runs its ships into each other.
Adding to the chaos and confusion, Hieu said that he and others are a little paranoid because Russians are believed to have infiltrated camps for the volunteers, and “leaks are everywhere.”
Sorry, I forgot one of my “certain to get slaughtered,” checklist items.
- Completely infiltrated with spies from the other side.
Any international volunteers who are captured by the Russians face a potentially bleak fate. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov announced earlier this month that “mercenaries” from the West would not be afforded rights given to prisoners of war or considered combatants under international humanitarian law.
“The consensus between some Americans and I is that it is better to die fighting than get captured,” Hieu said. “I try not to think about it, but I am concerned about dying. Though I believe this cause is more important than my personal safety.”
It appears our checklist needs one last, final update.
- At the point where we’re inventing copes where dying is better than not dying.
I think we’re just seconds away from Vlad the Bad surrendering.
Dying for his *ahem* cause – so stunning and brave…