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I believe that it's mixed. I have family that are in some high british military places and they're certainly not fash. They are however well meaning idiots that believe the propaganda. I could easily see them thinking they're doing something good in their post-military days by signing up for something like this and not realising that it's a completely different world to the sheltered environment and view of war that the British military provides them.
Well meaning fools that are fed propaganda is exactly how you get the fash. There's a reason folks say "scratch a liberal". Because on the surface they're all sunshine and friendship for all and apple pie with tea. But then, at a moment's notice, they go all "we must exterminate Russians, break up their country and make sure they stay down. For the greater good, of course". And when, as you said, their sheltered worldview clashes with the unpleasant reality, they grow frustrated and violent. Because they couldn't have possibly been fed propaganda from the moment of their birth, no siree! Propaganda is what them ebil commies do! Everyone's a free thinker out there in Europe! It is the Enemy that is wrong and bad and forces their hand to do bad things!
In the case of the clown that is the thread's topic, I might have given him a benefit of the doubt if he had gone as a medic or stayed in the rear as a humanitarian volunteer. But that's not what happened. He went to a different country, to join a war his government is not officially a part of, with the explicit purpose of murdering people. Either for money, for fun or because he thought it was a right thing to do. If it bleats like a fash