Bentley, a 64-year-old self-identified communist from Dallas, Texas, joined pro-Russian separatists in 2014 to combat Ukrainian forces. He went missing in the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk in April and was subsequently discovered dead.
Why is a 64 year old going to war?
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I remember seeing him in a couple videos. The article says 2014 though.
Did he not know that Russia isn’t communist?!
I don’t think a tankie from Texas can be assumed to know anything
Tankies aren’t communist. Neither are leninists. Their only ideological stance is to be anti west/America. Even if that means aiding fascists whom they have more in common with anyhow. Of which there’s historical precedence.
They do pretend to be communist though.
Absolutely. Like the economic liberals that larp as libertarians. What they call themselves and what they do are completely opposed.
Must be like the .ml "communist"s who love authoritarianism so much they’ll pretend state capitalism is leftist.
And nothing of value was lost
The four soldiers were arrested and will likely serve their sentence through forced military service on their tank. So yeah…
Might get sent to the front of the line if we’re lucky.
Link to an article?
It links now. Lemmy spazzed out a lot
Didn’t upload my picture when I first posted
Removed the article link when I edited to add the picture
Cut off the edges of the picture when I edited to re-add the link
It’s close enough now, I give up
No worries, chief. Appreciate the effort! I see the link now.
