• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
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    They will never get send to the front, they will be used for propaganda to undermine the next US election. Lots of chuds in the US becoming 18 this year who will listen to these two cunts.

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      Any young American MAGA men who are that dumb that they would follow these dipshits to fight for Russia, deserve whatever they get. I encourage as many as possible to join up. That’s just fewer morons we’ll have to deal with in the future.

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    They might the first ones to get training in a couple years. Aren’t they just scooping people up and feeding them directly into drone bombs nowadays?

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    Hypothetically speaking, how much time spent at a training camp is necessary for one to be categorized as a military target / enemy combatant? I don’t know how the conventions work.

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      Essentially, as soon as you have signed a contract to join a nation’s armed forced as a combatant, you are one and can be fought as such. Generally speaking you can be engaged in all contexts unless you are actively doing three things: surrendering, bailing out of a plane using a parachute as an emergency(not dropping as part of a paratrooper assault) or if you are in the process of being rescued from a shipwreck.

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        True for targetted assassinations but anyone on the training/military grounds is a valid target as it’s not like you can go review their each individual contracts to confirm this. You just destroy the entire base that spawns orcs into your lands.

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          Even targeted strikes on individual combatant (generals and other officers) are not considered war crimes. If you have enough reason to think that a person is an enemy combatant (they carry weapons and are dressed in the uniform of a belligerent enemy nation) you may engage them specficically.

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    Cowards like Andrew Tate won’t go anywhere near the actual front, they are all about a fake image of being strong while being being pathetic cowardly losers.


    This is a really fun post however, but made me think…

    Killing Tate in combat can be a bad idea, it could easily make him a martyr, a powerful symbol for other cowards to rally behind.

    However, if the last pictures of Tate were somehow really embarrassing to him and his followers…

    On the toilet perhaps, in the middle of the night, being half awake, hair and beard a mess, wearing a way too old t-shirt with large holes and stains.

    That might do it…

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      Him being a martyr would be less of an issue than him being an living promoter of his worldview.

      This hand wringing about awful people becoming martyrs is frustrating to read. How many horrible people have become actual martyrs who inspire people to be worse than the followers they had while living? Actually martyrs tend to die doing things that benefit people.

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      Killing Tate in combat can be a bad idea, it could easily make him a martyr, a powerful symbol for other cowards to rally behind.

      However, if the last pictures of Tate were somehow really embarrassing to him and his followers…

      What happened to Charlie Kirk?

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        The issue is still that it would be dying in combat.

        All his supporters could start using the argument that he was a true man, who never backed down from a fight, “he even went to war” would be a common claim.

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      i heard that, at least couple years back, rich people, well-positioned people, some influencers etc who nevertheless got drafted sometimes get an option to be a drone pilot in bars-kaskad unit. drone pilots are some of high priority targets, and now ukrainian drones reach like, 50km behind the frontline. in general drones can fly thousands of kilometers to worthy target, and targeting tate would be very funny. on the other hand, i’m not sure how would trump or other republicans react to that, he already got him out of romanian prison

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      If russia plays it smart. They would not send Tate anywhere near actual combat or standard military. Just some PR stunts with him and trying to make him look “badass”.

      If russia doesn’t play it smart then considering it’s russian military and Tate is western. He would get hazed to or near death or maybe executed by some military official.

      If Tate would even survive. Ukrainian troops would find him in fetal position and crying in a ditch

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      However, if the last pictures of Tate were somehow really embarrassing to him and his followers…

      now that you say that, russians must have some crazy strong kompromat on him

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        Globally they are the promoters of the sort of ideas he pushes, matched only by american far right. And there is not many places for them to run, which would be acceptable to their fans and wouldent prosecute them.

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    23 hours ago

    Shooting stuff at the gun range is like the most easy part of “army training”.

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    What training? Russian grunts get no training, they get threatened with rape and/or murder by their CO if they object to being used as target practice for Ukrainian drone operators.

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      It gets beyond threats and sometimes happens regardless. There are ton of videos of “500’s” tortures (code for those refusing to fight).

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      Foreign defector scumbags with an online following obviously don’t get the regular fresh-out-of-supermax training regime!

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    This is the best thing they’ve ever done.

    You think they have the advertising IDs turned off on their phones? Or nah?