• Found an article on this guy before he died, some notes of interest:

    he was convinced to go by his Ukrainian-Canadian boss

    member of the 22eme, not CANSOFCOM so not actually an “elite” sniper, just a regular Canadian sniper

    served on tours with yankees, war-crime likelihood increased drastically

    There is something profoundly sad about being convinced by your literal petit-bouge boss to go and die in a pointless war, somehow more so than usual.

    • mittens [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      3 years ago

      Can’t say I feel any empathy for the guy, but the gal to tell an employee to go become cannon fodder on a war you cannot possibly win is all sorts of fucked up.

        • OrionsMask [he/him,any]@hexbear.net
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          3 years ago

          What kind of loser actually listens to someone telling them that though. Yeah, the boss is a jackass, but he doesn’t have the power to send him to Ukraine. He should have been the one to tell his boss to fuck off. Now he can’t cause he’s dead.

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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            3 years ago

            So there was this war called World War I and several million young men signed up to die in the mud in France because of reasons that I still can’t comprehend after 35 years of living and readying history.

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              3 years ago

              I didn’t get how WW1 even happened until I heard people who previously struck me as completely non political started talking about how we should do a war because of a treaty (there isn’t even any treaty)

              it feels like a body snatchers horror movie