It would be nice see the link to that story, but it's impossible to outlaw stupidity, that guy gets what he gets.
They have people who decide to go hiking on the Iran border, then shock, surprise they are wasting away
in an Iranian prison with a life sentence for spying. The government helped get them back, but seriously
people who need warning labels to they don't eat Tide balls, if you don't know not to do that, then what
hope is there for you?
Sometimes idiots end up paying the price. They are thinning the heard by their actions.
I agree with you entirely Bill, if you think of it Russia has lost over a million men in three years either killed or as good as killed. That will probably be approximately their entire Army that they had built up over the first initial 6 months. So they have effectively more or less lost their entire initial army of one million men over three years and had to replace that over the three years with approximately another million men, so thereby raising an army twice lol.
Derek here is then being put into an army where the original army has largely been lost. The same strategy of using up men is still being used by Russia. So on that basis the odds of his survival are pretty poor. In theory he apparently signed a one year contract. Whether he can get out after that or they will disregard the contract who knows. Even with the better equipment if he still has it his odds of survival are still poor.
I personally don't think that he will survive that long, it could well be days, weeks probably at the most. I think he'll probably be killed pretty quickly we shall see, but I don't think he will survive the war. He says in one of the videos on YouTube that he wants to be a hero, come home from victory etc so he thinks he will survive it. I think he could be in for a nasty shock.