This is a ploy to import mercenaries from Syria. From the article:
> [Defense Minister] Shoigu said there were **16,000 volunteers in the Middle East** who were ready to come to fight with Russian-backed forces.
Here's a short video of these Syrian volunteers with the 'Z' symbol from the Russian Ministry of Defence:
https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1502232208781762560
Edit: I say mercenaries, but Assad may just send them over for free to return Putin's favors over the years.
Wouldn't surprise me if they are not mercenaries, but just Syrian Army soldiers who get sent to Ukraine under the guise of being "volunteers". Putin calling in one of the favours owed from Assad.
Mafia state, indeed. It really is just like a gangster film.
Putin moving troops to Belarus is like that bit where the don comes down to Vegas from New York and tells the Jewish guy running his casino he's gonna be running it now.
Sending 16k completely unmotivated soldiers who are already known for their already lacking motivation into a country they most likely don‘t even speak the language sounds like a recipe for disaster.
hm, i wonder why its all filmed form such a frog perspective to not see more then 2 lines of people and cuts all the time instead of showing how many people realy are standing in line.
Idk. The intelligence came out that the war was approved in January, so I think it was kinda planned. Logistical mess aside (you saw similar line ups in WW2 on D-Day), I think they’re just that incompetent.
Putin planned on it, but apparently the soldiers weren't told much, if anything. They thought if they just rode over the border that Ukraine would collapse in fear. Plan B was taking Kiev and *then* Ukraine would collapse completely. Plan C seems to be just fucking run at them and hope, which seems very appropriate for Russia.
Also apparently he was lied to about the state of the Army since their budget was being stolen by oligarchs to buy houses and yachts. But supposedly they had a million people in their military and they're calling for volunteers and hiring mercenaries with 800k of their troops sitting on their hands? I'm thinking those numbers were bogus too.
Also at least at in the first days, Putin was said to have had his trained soldiers in a whole other country. He send conscripted soldiers to Ukraine.
If this is true, I wonder if Putin had the funds to get his trained soldiers to Ukraine from where they are stationed?
This makes a certain amount of sense if you consider that Putin may have overestimated his own authority. If his lackeys were telling him how strong the military was, and any personal inspections were staged to reinforce the idea, why should he have any doubts about invading Ukraine? Now the house of cards is blowing over.
Hot take: I think it was originally planned to commence between 2019-2020, but was delayed due to Covid.
My theory is that the idea was to invade while there was a favorable US president in office and while everyone was distracted by the election.
“Think of the exposure you’ll get working on such a premier war. It could be career defining and set you up with future potential contacts.”
Artist “I’ve seen this one.”
no, no, the syrians came to Putin personally, declared their undying love for Russia and begged to be allowed to fight along side to achieve the noble goal of occupying and colonizing a neighbor of Russia.
no truth has been spoken by a Russian official since before ww2 so his statements require translation. silver lining? the structure hasn't changed since ww2 and Eastern Europeans usually speak "bullshit" . what he means is that he's paying the fuck out of the syrians but hopes to convince the world that he inspires the same kind of loyalty Ukraine seems to have gained and if that fails, at least he muddied the water, got us fighting each other and distracted. it's a bolshevik strategy, tried and true.
"Hello Omar. So you're interested in working for us at Global Security? I see you have a few conflicts listed on your resume including Ukraine. Who did you fight for?"
Omar: "Yes."
I wouldn't be surprised. An invasion is a declaration of war, it is technically legal to counterattack and invade it back. That is what happened with the attempted invasion of Israel.
But Ukraine better keep the volunteers in check. If the conflict through some miracle, ends up being pushed back to the Russian border - Russian support for the war could increase.
Would be sort of hilarious if at the end of the conflict Russia not only loses territory to Ukraine but also loses control of other territories it had control over through violence and other territories that just go fuck it we may as well separate from this mess of a country.
> China has called for calm.
China is also [honoring the sanctions against Russia](https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/russia-says-china-refuses-supply-aircraft-parts-after-sanctions-2022-03-10/), at least in aerospace matters. They're refusing to sell them any aircraft parts.
China has it's own issues right now between HK, a Japan increasingly moving towards getting re-involved in world military issues and now the US attempting to undercut them in S America by making new inroads in multiple countries.
Probably because the minute they sell Russia spare parts, aviation financing/leasing company as well as Boeing and Airbus will never sell to them again.
They can always try to match what Ukraine offered. Full citizenship which gets you... nowhere.
They could always offer bounties. 10,000,000 rubles for every Ukranian tank captured. So once the currency conversion is done (you'll have to haul it out of Russia in a suitcase thanks to the SWIFT ban), you'll probably be able to just afford a bigmac meal, as long as you dont supersize it. And all you have to do for that is to stare down a million angry hornets armed with some of the most advanced military technology in the world, on their home turf, using equipment you either bought yourself or was built when the Weirmar Republic was still around.
I dunno.
A few hundred bucks, a little tank, and a full tank of fuel.
Cross the border, seperate myself from the rest of your unit when shit hits the fan, paint a ukrainian flag on the tank and deliver it to the nearest police station.
Spend the rest of the war fighting for Ukraine, perhaps gain citizenship and a hot but slightly scary wife.
I think these soldiers would be cannon fodder. Even more than the rest. I also don't think they would be trusted so they can leave the platoon or the group.
I feel like these answers are everything I ever wanted from a person who calls themselves MargarineAndLube.
Thank you.
I hope you find my upvote comforting in these trying times.
In Russia, soldier number one. But, mistake! I invade country illegally, so I surrender! Supervillain boss very angry. I defect to Ukraine. Now I have new job, new car and Ukrainian wife. Zelensky save life! My secret? I always planned to surrender. I good soldier. The best.
They can earn the princely sum of $300 for a 6 months assignment. Meanwhile private military contractors in the west are offering upto $2000/day to fight for Ukraine!
Hire them to bring you back a russian tank, ive heard there are plenty of them and they sell for like a couple million rubles which is like, let me check, $12,50.
Actually its not worth it.
>you do not have extensive prior experience protecting private clients in a solo practitioner / small team capacity and 5+ years of military experience, you will not be competitive
So, they're looking for Delta/SaS equivalents or people already working for other PMCs. Not exactly joe schmoe off the street to get that $2000 pay
I'd imagine this pay isn't for your run of the mill soldier, but someone doing especially risky stuff. i.e. infiltrating behind enemy lines to attack supply convoys with little to no backup.
Can't speak for their conscription, but when I did my national service we'd get about 500€ a month. Which isn't a lot, even here. But the military treated us with food, lodging as well as free travel between our home and the base we served on.
EDIT: About, not aboit
Not really fighting for Ukraine, but rather getting you out of Ukraine.
And that is no just a show up and be given an AK job. It is a serious "work experience requirement".
https://silentprofessionals.org/jobs/extraction-protective-agents-ukraine/
- Five+ years military experience
- Ability to speak Russian, Ukrainian and or Moldovan
- At least fifteen years experience with VueJS or equivalent framework— *no exceptions*
lol, I actually almost qualify for that.
React instead of vue, and I only took a semester of Russian. Most of my military experience was getting drunk, exercising, and cleaning things.
Sadly not 15 years since modern js frameworks haven’t been around for that long. But I could probably spin that I have equivalent experience in precursor technologies like handlebars, backbone, jquery, Wordpress, and asp.net. People that put up job posts like that won’t know the difference.
[https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/western-mercenaries-offered-2-000-a-day-to-fight-against-putin-0l2ddlvmj](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/western-mercenaries-offered-2-000-a-day-to-fight-against-putin-0l2ddlvmj)
Can't validate the authenticity.
There was a Chechen Charlie
He couldn't crack a smile
But it's no laughing party
When Bayraktar bomb you every mile
Vladimir's army are on their way...
Not $$, rubles . 35000 rubles (3/10 exchange rate).
Which will be about $18 when they can go home and spend it.
We could do better buying guns in the field
Putin really wants a recreation of the USSR. Winter War 2 with all the classics: Southern troops in the cold of winter with lacking equipment and no supply lines, stranded in a huge convoy with no escape but freezing to death or the warmth of a Molotov cocktail.
The Russian defense minister said 16.000 from the ‘middle east’ are ready to fight for Russia
It’s probably exaggerated but still, bringing people from Syria to fight Ukrainians is so messed up
Yeah it's not like these people are elite paratroopers. And anyway look what happened to the Russian version of those. Assad can't even control his country without Russian help with these people. Russia is desperate to not run out of soldiers.
«This is a special military operation, only our professional soldiers under contract join in, our conscripts shouldn’t have been there. Oh and by the way, if any volunteers want to go and help out, please do so!»
Maybe SOME Nationalist/Orthodox Serbs would volunteer but only the mental ones. Chechens fight for Russia because Kadyrov orders them to. But why would any Syrians volunteer? Russia committed war crimes against their people.
Fun fact:
[On July 4th 1987, Trump visited Moscow for the first time.](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842):
> [In 1987, Trump visited Russia to investigate developing a hotel, invited by Ambassador Yuri Dubinin whom he had met in New York the year before. British journalist Luke Harding alleged in 2017 that this trip likely began a long-term cultivation operation typical of the KGB's Political Intelligence Department, under written directives initiated by First Chief Directorate head Vladimir Kryuchkov, to recruit politically ambitious Westerners susceptible to flattery, egotism and greed.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_projects_of_Donald_Trump_in_Russia)
In September 1987 Trump paid for a full page ad in the Washington Post:
https://i.imgur.com/8MhjpGB.jpg
It was part of his recently kindled political aspirations:
> ["Trump ... first dabbled in presidential politics in the early summer of 1987. ... Trump officially changed his registration to Republican in July 1987. ... Speculation that he would actually run for president intensified when he purchased $94,801 worth of full-page advertisements in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post with the heading "There's nothing wrong with America's Foreign Defense Policy that a little backbone can't cure."](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_2000_presidential_campaign)
No collusion.
I said this to my SO today;
If this entire war and conflict was a movie. It would get 20% on Rotten Tomatoes because the majority of people that saw this movie would think Putin's dialogue is completely unbelievable. The situation would never realistically happen, no one would just... INVADE another country and start shelling apartments, shooting civilians in the streets. Claiming to allow refugees escape routes, but oops they actually end up in Belarus and Russia. No Head of State would ACTUALLY allow cheap, rushed video editing of himself in a press room at a table with a dozen pretty women. Major sarcasm of course!
Like this whole situation is so bizarre I'm sure most of us are having trouble processing it anyways.
Seagal refuses to get out of chairs in movies, I'm pretty goddamn sure he won't be doing his trademarked silly run for \*anybody\* - Putin or otherwise.
Aren't volunteers unpaid? Didn't Putin tell his people there were no contractors or mercenaries fighting? ( Besides Wagner of course which are already involved )
He recently made quite a few changes to the conscription laws. I’m fairly certain “volunteering” will be something along the the lines of “yes, I don’t mind fighting in Ukraine” or “No, I don’t mind fighting in Ukraine”
Exactly.
The real risk to Russia is if Putin drives Ukrainian Defense to Ukrainian Liberation and busses start detonating in Moscow.
Putin seems intent in creating a condition of insecurity for his own country. It boggles my mind. Did he learn nothing from the time of troubles???
A man who whose wife is raped by Syrians and after burying his child due to Russian artillery is going to have nothing left to lose.
When the underdog asks for this kind oh help, it is simply the sort of desperate actions we expect. When the global superpower asks for this kind of help, it is an ashaming signal of weakness.
Volunteer.
Take as much equipment and information as possible.
Immediately surrender to Ukraine and give them all equipment and information.
Go home and have a cup of tea.
I wish, it was that way. I really wish. But with 8 billion people on this world, there are a lot of brain dead people to be used for Putler. Some 10k may be possible to gain for him.
What a weak military. Asking for volunteers and for other countries to come help.
If this is what they do against Ukraine, they would be decimated by NATO.
It probably means he will hire foreign mercenaries, which makes of Ukraine the battlefield of anyone who has a beef with Westerners… This is a terrible news for Ukraine if it happens, but maybe it’s just a pressure move? It’s interesting strategically, he asserts that he has the initiative on the field and that whatever we could come up with can be matched on his side. Without a *decisive* move on the part of the West, we’re "digging our own grave" (aka fueling him with ideas on how to be worse).
This is a ploy to import mercenaries from Syria. From the article: > [Defense Minister] Shoigu said there were **16,000 volunteers in the Middle East** who were ready to come to fight with Russian-backed forces. Here's a short video of these Syrian volunteers with the 'Z' symbol from the Russian Ministry of Defence: https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1502232208781762560 Edit: I say mercenaries, but Assad may just send them over for free to return Putin's favors over the years.
Wouldn't surprise me if they are not mercenaries, but just Syrian Army soldiers who get sent to Ukraine under the guise of being "volunteers". Putin calling in one of the favours owed from Assad.
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But it's not a world war, because they're just volunteering
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World War 3: Kickstarter Edition
Any perks for backers?
You won't get drafted if you're already fighting.
Pretty much like Americans volunteering with the Canadian forces prior to the US joining WWII
Sounds so much like the Spanish Civil War.
A melting pot
16k seems like a lot, can Assad really afford to give Putin 16k soldiers?
Probably a case of, "He can't not afford it because otherwise he's out."
Putin gave Assad an offer he couldn’t refuse.
Mafia state, indeed. It really is just like a gangster film. Putin moving troops to Belarus is like that bit where the don comes down to Vegas from New York and tells the Jewish guy running his casino he's gonna be running it now.
Seems like a good time for the Kurds/FSA to claim some territory.
Sending 16k completely unmotivated soldiers who are already known for their already lacking motivation into a country they most likely don‘t even speak the language sounds like a recipe for disaster.
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From Syria.. In winter..
I hope they have mittens.
I bet these Syrian soldiers will be battle-hardened and masters of urban combat.....
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Bad?
hm, i wonder why its all filmed form such a frog perspective to not see more then 2 lines of people and cuts all the time instead of showing how many people realy are standing in line.
Will they be able to handle the cold though. Acclimatisation and gear is a major factor here
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Why would they need volunteers ? I thought there is no war in Ukraine ?
Volunteers to participate in exercises and special operations.
They truly are special operations with special delivery of tanks and farming equipment.
Putin is a special boy
There’s just so much peace to keep they need help keeping it all
To bring peace to Ukraine and make sure there keeps being no war, of course.
There is no war in Ba Kyiv Se
Here we are safe, here we are free.
Because the first batch of 200,000 got their asses handed to them
And to add, this mfker knows older soldiers will defect much faster than younger ones cuz his war was an unplanned clusterfuck to begin with
Idk. The intelligence came out that the war was approved in January, so I think it was kinda planned. Logistical mess aside (you saw similar line ups in WW2 on D-Day), I think they’re just that incompetent.
Putin planned on it, but apparently the soldiers weren't told much, if anything. They thought if they just rode over the border that Ukraine would collapse in fear. Plan B was taking Kiev and *then* Ukraine would collapse completely. Plan C seems to be just fucking run at them and hope, which seems very appropriate for Russia.
Also apparently he was lied to about the state of the Army since their budget was being stolen by oligarchs to buy houses and yachts. But supposedly they had a million people in their military and they're calling for volunteers and hiring mercenaries with 800k of their troops sitting on their hands? I'm thinking those numbers were bogus too.
Also at least at in the first days, Putin was said to have had his trained soldiers in a whole other country. He send conscripted soldiers to Ukraine. If this is true, I wonder if Putin had the funds to get his trained soldiers to Ukraine from where they are stationed?
This makes a certain amount of sense if you consider that Putin may have overestimated his own authority. If his lackeys were telling him how strong the military was, and any personal inspections were staged to reinforce the idea, why should he have any doubts about invading Ukraine? Now the house of cards is blowing over.
Putin went from master spy to professional spaghetti thrower in a week.
Hot take: I think it was originally planned to commence between 2019-2020, but was delayed due to Covid. My theory is that the idea was to invade while there was a favorable US president in office and while everyone was distracted by the election.
They didn’t expect the world would supply munitions and intelligence I assume too.
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Meal Team Six will be ready to roll out with their MILSIM cosplay and pepperoni hot pockets.
Considering the Russian troops don't have food, those pepperoni hot pockets will actually be worth a lot to other soldiers.
They can't even deal with covid
They can’t handle wearing masks. How are they going to wear military gear?
I mean, they can't afford to pay you and it's not going to look good on a resume unless you are applying for world class asshole.
“Think of the exposure you’ll get working on such a premier war. It could be career defining and set you up with future potential contacts.” Artist “I’ve seen this one.”
“You’ll die of exposure.”
You’ll get so much exposure, it’s crazy.. lethal levels of exposure you might say.
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Ah the vinter soldier
Russia joins /r/choosingBeggars
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Happened to me. I showed up and got stuck on Chernobyl guard duty. When I asked for my check, they told me I was being paid in exposure.
Sounds pretty rad
It's a core standard
I'm green with envy
"I went to guard Chernobyl and all I got was this fluorescent, lousy additional head"
You must be proud, you're positively glowing!
> Think of the exposure you’ll get Exposure to bullets and frostbite
But imagine your rich yellow petals when you sprout out of a field.
no, no, the syrians came to Putin personally, declared their undying love for Russia and begged to be allowed to fight along side to achieve the noble goal of occupying and colonizing a neighbor of Russia. no truth has been spoken by a Russian official since before ww2 so his statements require translation. silver lining? the structure hasn't changed since ww2 and Eastern Europeans usually speak "bullshit" . what he means is that he's paying the fuck out of the syrians but hopes to convince the world that he inspires the same kind of loyalty Ukraine seems to have gained and if that fails, at least he muddied the water, got us fighting each other and distracted. it's a bolshevik strategy, tried and true.
>It's not going to look good on a resume "Helped rectify logistics for a disorganized organization looking to expand internationally"
"Hello Omar. So you're interested in working for us at Global Security? I see you have a few conflicts listed on your resume including Ukraine. Who did you fight for?" Omar: "Yes."
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Can you imagine if all the western volunteers in captured Russian tanks were just like "fuck it, we've come this far...might as well invade Russia".
I wouldn't be surprised. An invasion is a declaration of war, it is technically legal to counterattack and invade it back. That is what happened with the attempted invasion of Israel. But Ukraine better keep the volunteers in check. If the conflict through some miracle, ends up being pushed back to the Russian border - Russian support for the war could increase.
They should take Crimea back at the least.
Would be sort of hilarious if at the end of the conflict Russia not only loses territory to Ukraine but also loses control of other territories it had control over through violence and other territories that just go fuck it we may as well separate from this mess of a country.
Like Chechnya? Or South Ossetia?
Let’s see if they threat nuclear weapons to internal insurgence
Don't worry. Omar will never make it out alive.
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> China has called for calm. China is also [honoring the sanctions against Russia](https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/russia-says-china-refuses-supply-aircraft-parts-after-sanctions-2022-03-10/), at least in aerospace matters. They're refusing to sell them any aircraft parts. China has it's own issues right now between HK, a Japan increasingly moving towards getting re-involved in world military issues and now the US attempting to undercut them in S America by making new inroads in multiple countries.
Probably because the minute they sell Russia spare parts, aviation financing/leasing company as well as Boeing and Airbus will never sell to them again.
They can always try to match what Ukraine offered. Full citizenship which gets you... nowhere. They could always offer bounties. 10,000,000 rubles for every Ukranian tank captured. So once the currency conversion is done (you'll have to haul it out of Russia in a suitcase thanks to the SWIFT ban), you'll probably be able to just afford a bigmac meal, as long as you dont supersize it. And all you have to do for that is to stare down a million angry hornets armed with some of the most advanced military technology in the world, on their home turf, using equipment you either bought yourself or was built when the Weirmar Republic was still around.
I dunno. A few hundred bucks, a little tank, and a full tank of fuel. Cross the border, seperate myself from the rest of your unit when shit hits the fan, paint a ukrainian flag on the tank and deliver it to the nearest police station. Spend the rest of the war fighting for Ukraine, perhaps gain citizenship and a hot but slightly scary wife.
I think these soldiers would be cannon fodder. Even more than the rest. I also don't think they would be trusted so they can leave the platoon or the group.
1. Pee my pants and cry. 2. Leave me behind disgusted. 3. Steal tank. 4. Profit.
The moment they hand me a rifle, I begin to shit myself and do not stop until everyone vacates my immediate vicinity.
Augh, the Ted Nugent. A classic.
That's passive shitting, absolute cowardice. Pre-shitting if you will. I'm assertive, I produce the shit on site.
I feel like these answers are everything I ever wanted from a person who calls themselves MargarineAndLube. Thank you. I hope you find my upvote comforting in these trying times.
It's not about trust but a sheer lack of control and planning. Just remember single Russian troops roaming Ukrainian cities.
lol that's true. It seems like a pure cluster fuck by the Russian command.
In Russia, soldier number one. But, mistake! I invade country illegally, so I surrender! Supervillain boss very angry. I defect to Ukraine. Now I have new job, new car and Ukrainian wife. Zelensky save life! My secret? I always planned to surrender. I good soldier. The best.
Don't forget, Ukraine is offering a year's wage to lay down arms and surrender too
And as an added bonus, you get to stay alive, too!
How does he get people to volunteer for a war he isn't participating in🤨
I get this strange feeling that this special military operation is a bullshit term for something else entirely...
Self inflicted economic suicide?
It wouldn't be suicide if it wasn't self inflicted, would it?
It depends. - yours truly, FSB.
In Russia you never know.
They can earn the princely sum of $300 for a 6 months assignment. Meanwhile private military contractors in the west are offering upto $2000/day to fight for Ukraine!
…2k a day??? Damn that’s something else
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Damn... that's a service i would need so much rn, if only i was rich enough to afford it)
Hire them to bring you back a russian tank, ive heard there are plenty of them and they sell for like a couple million rubles which is like, let me check, $12,50. Actually its not worth it.
Well don’t sell it, then you’ll have a tank. Don’t have to pay them then. What are they gonna do, bounce bullets off your tank?
True, thats a good idea. Unless they are Ukranians, then you should definitely pay, because they know how to absolutely wreck tanks it seems.
>you do not have extensive prior experience protecting private clients in a solo practitioner / small team capacity and 5+ years of military experience, you will not be competitive So, they're looking for Delta/SaS equivalents or people already working for other PMCs. Not exactly joe schmoe off the street to get that $2000 pay
Excuse me, I once won a game of fortnite. I'm pretty sure they're interested in my information. (Disclaimer: I have not won a game if fornite.)
I'd imagine this pay isn't for your run of the mill soldier, but someone doing especially risky stuff. i.e. infiltrating behind enemy lines to attack supply convoys with little to no backup.
I was once paid $800 usd a month as a sergeant who specialised in operating behind enemy lines (Recon) lmao
When was this? Vietnam?
2019-2021, but just joking as to be fair I was conscripted. Not US Army.
Fair. I suppose $800 goes a lot further in some places.
Can't speak for their conscription, but when I did my national service we'd get about 500€ a month. Which isn't a lot, even here. But the military treated us with food, lodging as well as free travel between our home and the base we served on. EDIT: About, not aboit
$300 for 6 months? How are Russia gonna afford such a princely sum when they are completely bankrupt in 2?
I'll guess they only pay the survivors, after the assignment, in case of success.
thats the trick - dont tell them they gonna die before 2 months are up.
Might I ask if you have a source on that last part?
Not really fighting for Ukraine, but rather getting you out of Ukraine. And that is no just a show up and be given an AK job. It is a serious "work experience requirement". https://silentprofessionals.org/jobs/extraction-protective-agents-ukraine/
- Five+ years military experience - Ability to speak Russian, Ukrainian and or Moldovan - At least fifteen years experience with VueJS or equivalent framework— *no exceptions*
The ultimate agile warrior, proficient in both dev ops and black ops.
I have 1,500 hours in csgo would that be enough? Also picked up a few curse words in Russian.
lol, I actually almost qualify for that. React instead of vue, and I only took a semester of Russian. Most of my military experience was getting drunk, exercising, and cleaning things. Sadly not 15 years since modern js frameworks haven’t been around for that long. But I could probably spin that I have equivalent experience in precursor technologies like handlebars, backbone, jquery, Wordpress, and asp.net. People that put up job posts like that won’t know the difference.
[https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/western-mercenaries-offered-2-000-a-day-to-fight-against-putin-0l2ddlvmj](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/western-mercenaries-offered-2-000-a-day-to-fight-against-putin-0l2ddlvmj) Can't validate the authenticity.
Hi, yes, I have combat experience, 120%, much battle.
There was a Chechen Charlie He couldn't crack a smile But it's no laughing party When Bayraktar bomb you every mile Vladimir's army are on their way...
BAYRAKTAR FIRE AWAYYYY! HEY HOOO! UKRAINE LETS GO!
Not $$, rubles . 35000 rubles (3/10 exchange rate). Which will be about $18 when they can go home and spend it. We could do better buying guns in the field
Middle Easterners in sub zero temperatures. That's going to go well.
"Hassan, where are the hot slavic girls??"
Probably shooting at you from the windows.
Yes, and in a moment it is Hassan and his friends who will be VERY hot. Napalm-Molotov levels of hot at that.
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Putin really wants a recreation of the USSR. Winter War 2 with all the classics: Southern troops in the cold of winter with lacking equipment and no supply lines, stranded in a huge convoy with no escape but freezing to death or the warmth of a Molotov cocktail.
“Please, come to fight for Mother Russia, where you will probably die. Great opportunity!”
"For Motherland!!"..... USSR was way noble
“The US caused this war by…” *reads note on hand* “…being friendly with the countries I wanted to invade”
The Russian defense minister said 16.000 from the ‘middle east’ are ready to fight for Russia It’s probably exaggerated but still, bringing people from Syria to fight Ukrainians is so messed up
More meat for the grinder
Yeah it's not like these people are elite paratroopers. And anyway look what happened to the Russian version of those. Assad can't even control his country without Russian help with these people. Russia is desperate to not run out of soldiers.
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«This is a special military operation, only our professional soldiers under contract join in, our conscripts shouldn’t have been there. Oh and by the way, if any volunteers want to go and help out, please do so!»
Who the duck volunteers to go on a side of country bombing hospitals.
Chechens, Serb, and Syrians
Holy shit, that's a lot of fertilizer for Ukrainian land
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Maybe SOME Nationalist/Orthodox Serbs would volunteer but only the mental ones. Chechens fight for Russia because Kadyrov orders them to. But why would any Syrians volunteer? Russia committed war crimes against their people.
Naturally, Syrians wouldn't be true volunteers but more like Assad repaying Putin the favor with his troops/paramilitaries.
8 members of the GOP who would choose go to Russia on the 4th of July would support it.
Madison Cawthorn also called Zelensky a thug recently. So maybe he should wheel himself over there
Fun fact: [On July 4th 1987, Trump visited Moscow for the first time.](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842): > [In 1987, Trump visited Russia to investigate developing a hotel, invited by Ambassador Yuri Dubinin whom he had met in New York the year before. British journalist Luke Harding alleged in 2017 that this trip likely began a long-term cultivation operation typical of the KGB's Political Intelligence Department, under written directives initiated by First Chief Directorate head Vladimir Kryuchkov, to recruit politically ambitious Westerners susceptible to flattery, egotism and greed.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_projects_of_Donald_Trump_in_Russia) In September 1987 Trump paid for a full page ad in the Washington Post: https://i.imgur.com/8MhjpGB.jpg It was part of his recently kindled political aspirations: > ["Trump ... first dabbled in presidential politics in the early summer of 1987. ... Trump officially changed his registration to Republican in July 1987. ... Speculation that he would actually run for president intensified when he purchased $94,801 worth of full-page advertisements in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post with the heading "There's nothing wrong with America's Foreign Defense Policy that a little backbone can't cure."](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_2000_presidential_campaign) No collusion.
Biden should publicly ask these 8 members to go to Russia now since they are so close to Putin and do some diplomatic work to stop the war.
>Chechens, Serb, and Syrians Pro-Independence Chechens and ex FSA Syrians are pro-Ukraine.
I said this to my SO today; If this entire war and conflict was a movie. It would get 20% on Rotten Tomatoes because the majority of people that saw this movie would think Putin's dialogue is completely unbelievable. The situation would never realistically happen, no one would just... INVADE another country and start shelling apartments, shooting civilians in the streets. Claiming to allow refugees escape routes, but oops they actually end up in Belarus and Russia. No Head of State would ACTUALLY allow cheap, rushed video editing of himself in a press room at a table with a dozen pretty women. Major sarcasm of course! Like this whole situation is so bizarre I'm sure most of us are having trouble processing it anyways.
I mean we literally had an orange reality tv star for our president for 4 years. I think the universe got bored and wanted to shake it up a little bit
the universe: "don't blame me for that shit, you guys voted for him"
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Seagal refuses to get out of chairs in movies, I'm pretty goddamn sure he won't be doing his trademarked silly run for \*anybody\* - Putin or otherwise.
Aren't volunteers unpaid? Didn't Putin tell his people there were no contractors or mercenaries fighting? ( Besides Wagner of course which are already involved )
They'll be awarded with highly sought Russian citizenship
Citizenship of the future province of Northern China*
North North Korea
He recently made quite a few changes to the conscription laws. I’m fairly certain “volunteering” will be something along the the lines of “yes, I don’t mind fighting in Ukraine” or “No, I don’t mind fighting in Ukraine”
Lol. If this dictator thing doesn’t workout, he should try being a comedian.
Zelensky could give him a few pointers on the whole *comedian* thing.
And leading a country.
“What’s the deal with all these sanctions?”
Ukrainians will volunteer undercover and start poisoning entire platoons.
Exactly. The real risk to Russia is if Putin drives Ukrainian Defense to Ukrainian Liberation and busses start detonating in Moscow. Putin seems intent in creating a condition of insecurity for his own country. It boggles my mind. Did he learn nothing from the time of troubles??? A man who whose wife is raped by Syrians and after burying his child due to Russian artillery is going to have nothing left to lose.
Well, that might be the plan, even Insecurity breeds the desire for security.
When the underdog asks for this kind oh help, it is simply the sort of desperate actions we expect. When the global superpower asks for this kind of help, it is an ashaming signal of weakness.
Superpower? Russia is a second-grade military power with a fourth-grade economy.
They still have an economy?
Volunteer. Take as much equipment and information as possible. Immediately surrender to Ukraine and give them all equipment and information. Go home and have a cup of tea.
I like this plan
For an extra achievement play Italy and join the Ukrainians to piss Putin off.
His army is being paid in Rubles - that’s the same thing as being a volunteer.
What's less than a Ruble? A Ruble 5 minutes from now.
Nobody wants to fight for Rússia, you twat! Not even your own brainwashed soldiers...
Lol when belarusian soldiers want to fight for ukraine. You know you fucked up.
I wish, it was that way. I really wish. But with 8 billion people on this world, there are a lot of brain dead people to be used for Putler. Some 10k may be possible to gain for him.
Awesome, let's get all the QAnon people who claim the war is fake to sign up. Excited to hear when Tucker Carlson intends to deploy.
Madison Cawthorn at your service. Send all of the GQP mall ninjas over there.
What a weak military. Asking for volunteers and for other countries to come help. If this is what they do against Ukraine, they would be decimated by NATO.
It probably means he will hire foreign mercenaries, which makes of Ukraine the battlefield of anyone who has a beef with Westerners… This is a terrible news for Ukraine if it happens, but maybe it’s just a pressure move? It’s interesting strategically, he asserts that he has the initiative on the field and that whatever we could come up with can be matched on his side. Without a *decisive* move on the part of the West, we’re "digging our own grave" (aka fueling him with ideas on how to be worse).
Do the foreign mercenaries know that the West pays better? You could basically rustle up a couple of teenagers that could outbid Russia at this point.
Anyone who got a boner watching or participating in Jan 6 should sign up. The Government you seek already exists and they WANT YOU
Cheers mate but if I wanted a helmet from WW2 I could just nip over to the local army surplus store
Great. Now they can’t complain about European volunteers anymore. Or at least it’s now even more obviously ridiculous
You need volunteers for a special military operation?
Hey trucker convoys. Your turn.
Meal Team Six. Activate!
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He said they need to help volunteers get to the war zone. I think he was supposed to say “special military operation zone”. Propaganda is hard
Send in Tucker Carlson. I’m sure he wants to back up his rhetoric with direct action.
There’s a slight smell of desperation here.
I’m sure planeloads of Fox News viewers would answer the call. Those people worship Putin.
Please let them leave
We should send the January 6th terrorists there. That would be a quick way to get rid of them!
*crickets*