• Basic Glitch@lemm.eeOP
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    9 hours ago

    While in Turkey, Gloss began expressing a desire to go on to Russia. “He was usually watching videos about Palestine and was so angry at America,” one acquaintance told iStories. “He started thinking about going to Russia. He wanted to war with the USA. But I think he was very influenced by the conspiracy theory videos.”

    A number of acquaintances told the outlet that he had not been interested in fighting, but hoped the army would allow him to receive a Russian passport and stay in the country.

    I cannot comprehend how anyone could possibly believe they would be able to join the Russian army during a war and some how not have to fight??

    And why join the Russian army at that point and not Ukraine if he hated fascists?? None of this makes any sense.

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      9 hours ago

      Idk dude, this doesn’t make any sense. I mean it could be some dude who wasn’t very bright, and joined the army because he was very confused and disillusioned, but why would a leftist who hates fascism go join the Russian army?

      No one is releasing any information about his death other than he was killed in Ukraine and it’s not known if the Russian army knew he was the son of a CIA agent when he joined.

      Very odd

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        5 hours ago

        but why would a leftist who hates fascism go join the Russian army?

        I don’t know, why were leftists insisting everyone on the left stay home for the election?

        “Oh, everyone else is fooled, but not me, I’m too smart to let the propaganda work!”

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        7 hours ago

        This isn’t a case of ‘I needed to get out of poverty, so I took the only lifeline available’. This dude left the country he lived in to fight someone elses war. I can be grossly indifferent to his death. He opted into it.

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        8 hours ago

        No one is releasing any information about his death other than he was killed in Ukraine

        You assume there is more. He’s a nobody who died fighting for a bad cause. People aren’t logical, they make all sorts of stupid and crazy decisions. Even those not in Trump’s administration.

        • Basic Glitch@lemm.eeOP
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          7 hours ago

          I mean he definitely made some very unwise decisions. Just wondering if Russia really didn’t know who he was when they recruited him.