• FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    No, early on there was a lot of US volunteers getting rocked because they were expecting to have a similar situation to fighting an insurgent force in Afghanistan or Iraq

    But Ukraine didn’t provide proper air or artillery support and basically used them as meat shields against the Russians, who did have those things

    Hence the untimely end of the 1st Armored Reddit Brigade

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        3 days ago

        There were multiple incidents of this

        Veteran volunteers were used as irregulars in the fields, they got their shit rocked and one literally hoofed it out of Ukraine on foot because he was scared to get sent back into combat

        The 1st Armored Reddit Brigade were all in a base that got attacked because they wouldn’t stop posting

        The cruise missile happened to another group of volunteers who wouldn’t stop posting

        It’s kind of funny that they don’t learn

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        American mercs? a lot have died in ukraine. there’s a telegram channel dedicated to tracking mercs in Ukraine
        the subreddit volunteersforukraine has probably gotten quite a lot of people killed