Sergey Mulivanov, a 59-year-old activist with the Latvian Russian Union who moved to Russia two years ago, was charged with fraud and sent to fight in the war against Ukraine, his lawyer, relatives, and acquaintances told the news outlet Ostorozhno, Novosti.
Why is it that all pro Russian supporters are always so thick? It’s blinding the obvious to literally everyone else, including most toddlers, that if you move to Russia and you’re not a multi-millionaire, you’re going to get sent to the front line.
Why is this always shocking to these people?
Selection bias
I don’t like to berate people, but having low IQ really is a thing.
As a Latvian, we have a saying “idiots get idiot pay”.
om nom
This news inspires such conflict. On one hand the guy played stupid games and won stupid prizes, so you could say he’s got what he deserved. On the other hand he’s clearly disabled and mentally ill so this is basically eugenics which I don’t think we should be applauding. The whole situation fucking sucks, his choices, the war, Russia, the history that brought everything to this point, all of it.
I kinda get what you’re saying, the guy is naive at best and stupid at worst, but even he doesn’t deserve this horrible fate.
Why? Sincerely curious. I mean, he’d genuinely and naively spread all this Russian disinformation, or would be a sleeper agent of the enemy, especially if he had Latvian citizenship. Now he’s gone, or would be soon. What’s the problem? Why doesn’t he deserve all this? I think Ukrainian kids and the civilians overall do not deserve all this, but a creature like this deserves it all fair and square.
You’re not wrong, but wishing him nothing but a horrific death puts us exactly on his level. I have no sympathy for the guy or his actions, but I do want to leave the door open in case he, or anyone else for that matter will sincerely say the magic words “I was wrong”. It’s probably not going to happen, and we can revel in the fact that everything that is happening to him is his own doing, but one day this war will be over and we have to move on from it somehow. Allowing people like that to admit they supported the wrong side is the path forward IMO.
Oh, I bet all of them would behave ‘I was just following the orders,’ including the führer himself. They would be not just ‘I was wrong,’ they would be the most Ukrainian-centric people, the most patriotic ones. You’ll see. Obviously, that wouldn’t be sincere, but hey, the door is open!
People close to Mulivanov [age 59] say he has type 2 diabetes and polyneuropathy, and that his health deteriorated in pretrial detention. Meanwhile, requests for a medical examination submitted by his defense back in the summer have gone unanswered. His lawyer said Mulivanov had not undergone a military medical evaluation before [being tricked into] signing the contract, either.
Praying for the best – that whatever munition does him in is especially cheap and gives a Ukrainian valuable target practice. 🙏
Schadenfreude aside, you gotta realize that putting a man that old into military service as a grunt is a super bad look. What are we at now? 1.5+ million souls gone on Russia’s side alone?
That 1.5 million figure is casualties, meaning both dead and wounded. The actual dead are between 300k-500k.
What are we at now? 1.5+ million souls gone on Russia’s side alone?
It’s fine; Mulivanov wouldn’t add to that.
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Do not use ableist slurs on Lemmy.World.
His next YouTube video will be uploaded from a Ukrainian drone.
The lesson is to not do that.
