r/worldnewsvideo • u/UNITED24Media • 3d ago

An Australian citizen was reportedly captured by the Russian forces in Ukraine

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u/Jerrylad101 3d ago

I'm sure Russia are really worried about that strongly worded letter the UN will send them

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u/CamusV3rseaux 2d ago

Don't you mean a mercenary?

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u/BoarHide 2d ago

Volunteers are not mercenaries. They are an official part of the Ukrainian army, adhere to international laws of war and are to be treated with respect for those same laws.

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u/Roxylius 2d ago

Did said “volunteers” get paid? If so then yes mercenaries

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u/BoarHide 2d ago

Do regular soldiers get paid? Of course they fucking do. Mercenaries come to fight for money. Volunteers come to fight to right a moral wrong. If you can’t tell the difference, you’re being purposefully abstruse.

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u/appalachianoperator 2d ago

So if a non-Russian fought for Russia believing they were doing so for a moral purpose, they’d also be considered a volunteer? What about Israel? Turkey? The only way a foreign fighter is considered a volunteer is if they are either part of a military or military-run detachment (like the French foreign legion), or if they are only getting fed and a bed for fighting. It has nothing to do with the cause.

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u/BoarHide 2d ago

Yes? They’d be scumbags, if they fought for Russia out of conviction, but volunteers nonetheless.

Y’all are absolutely historically illiterate. You should read up on, say, the Spanish civil war, and the many, many socialists, antifascists and believers in democracy who went to fight on the side of the republicans against Franco’s fascists. From Germany, the Soviet Union, Britain, Ireland, the U.S. and the rest of the world came people with conviction.

I know none of you motherfuckers watched the videos from the Russian torture chambers, where they slaughtered men, women and children all, or you would understand why some people went to fight to put a stop to Russia’s aggression. None of you have lived on their borders, known the terror of having them as your neighbour, or you would not be defacing the volunteers for Ukraine.

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u/appalachianoperator 2d ago

Way to keep the discussion civil and assume you know the backgrounds of the people you’re debating when you in fact don’t know jack about them.

A mercenary is a soldier hired to fight in a foreign army. Some have a moral code, others are just in it for the profit. It’s not a derogatory term when used as a noun.

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u/Wandererbelel 2d ago

Nah thats my teacher, he doing it for money

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u/Beezelbub_is_me 3d ago

Was he fighting for the Ukrainians?

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u/Iramian 2d ago

32? He looks like 50. The gall of aussie officials to talk about humanitarian law while turning a blind eye to Gaza.

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u/SecretWitty1531 2d ago

Violent ? Maybe lets take a peak back behind enemy lines in ww2 or sooner. I think we will configure the true defenition of "violent". The most this video gives me is a light feeling of sorrow mixed with comedy, as seeing the russians toy with him makes me feel like im watching the old classic "the fox and the hound"

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u/luka_1969 1d ago

And he was there on holiday, right?