• @Plopp
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    1711 months ago

    I don’t think “volunteered” is the right word to use here. Volunteering usually means you want to do the specific work because you believe in the cause and could even do it for free because it’s important to you. These people were promised jobs, admission to universities, visa extensions etc to lure them in. Usually people who get trafficked don’t have too many options in life, so they might have just thought it was a way to provide a future for themselves and their families. And we don’t know what they’d been told said “help” would be. For all we know they might have been told they’d help with making sure captured Ukrainians were safe and treated well.

    • @givesomefucks
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      -311 months ago

      They “volunteered” to help the Russian invasion, just not explicitly in a combat role.

      They got there, and discovered the Russian military isn’t big on free will, and were sent into combat…

      I don’t feel bad at all.

      Because they signed up to help the Russian invasion in exchange for money.

      • @Plopp
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        611 months ago

        Unless you have a source you’re not sharing, you have no idea what they signed up for or why.

        • @grue
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          11 months ago

          Let’s connect the dots for you:

          • Russia invaded a sovereign country and is committing genocide.
          • These people signed up to “help” Russia
          • That makes them complicit in genocide and therefore undeserving of sympathy.

          It doesn’t fucking matter exactly what kind of “help” they had in mind; any support for Russia makes them guilty.

        • @givesomefucks
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          -411 months ago

          I do, it’s the article your commenting on so I didn’t link it:

          At least two men who went to Russia expecting to work as “helpers” in the army have died while fighting at the front, their families have said.

          I think I’m just gonna block you now tho, don’t want to forget and then try to explain stuff again.

          Have a good life, hope it gets better.

          • @Plopp
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            311 months ago

            You really seem to like living life on easy mode where nothing challenges your preconceived ideas of binary simplicities. Pity.