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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHe moved for traditional family values. Now it's off to the meat grinder oh well dumb ass.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/16/texas-man-joins-russian-army-to-earn-respect-gets-lied-to-as-he-is-sent-to-front-line-instead-of-welding-job/
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He moved for traditional family values. Now it's off to the meat grinder oh well dumb ass. (Original Post)
Duncanpup
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Buns_of_Fire
(18,598 posts)1. Fun! Travel! Adventure!
Derek sure looks spiffy in his new outfit that almost covers some of his vital areas. Maybe he'll be buried in it, to bask in everlasting glory that what's left of him will not be surrounded by all those heathens in the west.
hatrack
(63,028 posts)2. Better a sucking chest wound than 5 seconds of Queer Eye that you didn't mute quickly enough.
Right, Derek? Right?
oasis
(52,505 posts)3. FAFO with a bullet. Pun intended.

yardwork
(67,260 posts)4. I enjoyed this paragraph.
The deployment also created financial strain for the family. Derek and his unit members were reportedly required to donate 10,000 rubles for their own supplies, consuming a substantial portion of his paycheck. DeAnna reported receiving no pay or bonus after one month of Dereks service.
mwmisses4289
(1,563 posts)5. The only people in that family i feel sorry for is the kids.
Hope the kids can make it back to canada or the u.s., and leave their idiotic parents behind in russia.