Western fighters in Ukraine are getting killed because they assumed the war would be easy, says a US veteran who fought there 🤡 (www.businessinsider.com)

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[-] Eat_Yo_Vegetables69@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 6 months ago

Didn't a group of redditors also unknowingly get their unit hit by rockets after posting a video for upvotes lol

[-] pinguinu@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 6 months ago

That happened a couple times during the first year (iirc?)

Redditors gonna reddit idk

[-] SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 6 months ago

If that’s the outcome then maybe more redditors should enlist until the website isn’t a warmongering hellhole.

[-] PanArab@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 6 months ago

Good!

[-] SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 6 months ago

No fucking way… they thought it’d be easy???? HOW?!

[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 6 months ago

Remember all the western media talking about Russian army being on the verge of collapse incessantly?

[-] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 6 months ago

They're fighting with shovels and robbing refrigerators for parts to send back home. They ran out of ammunition after a month and the ghost of Kiev is picking them off from the sky.

[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 6 months ago

Destroying the M1 Abrams using ATGS, anti-tank guided shovels

[-] chesmotorcycle@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 6 months ago

Best laugh I've had in weeks

[-] OrnluWolfjarl@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 6 months ago

A combination of Western chauvinism, arrogance and gullibility.

[-] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 6 months ago

They thought they would fight ill trained and equipped orcs rushing at them in waves to be gunned down.

Instead they faced well trained and equipped soldiers, with much more artillery and air support than they have and no shortage of ammunition.

[-] RedClouds@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 6 months ago

Westoids literally think it's Lord of the Rings there! They took the orc comments too seriously.

[-] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 6 months ago

Westerners believe themselves to be immune to propaganda, while actually the most propagandized people on earth.

In their defense: Unless you check out alternative media, you only get to hear news straight out the Ukrainian HQ.

[-] Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I've seen clips and it's like watching a bunch of dudes play airsoft. They thought war would be a game and are shocked to find that they're fighting an actual army instead of little kids and idiots with AK-47s

[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 6 months ago

little kids and idiots with AK-47s

that win

[-] Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 months ago

Exactly

[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 6 months ago

indeed

[-] coolusername@lemmy.ml 15 points 6 months ago

/r/volunteersforukraine literally gets people killed

[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 6 months ago

the fate war tourists deserve

[-] 666@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 6 months ago

NCD is definitely one of those subreddits that push people in the west towards wanting to volunteer for Ukraine to defend NATO while radicalizing them to adopt a mish-mash pro-NATO reddt-ideology.

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