International Brigades Bug

[kanzeon_2040]

Had a momentary thought about dropping my life and joining the International Brigade forming up to defend Ukraine. Then remembered I have asthma. How would I get hold of the medicines I need?

The fragility of my 21st Century life.

Comments

[matrixmann]

I'd strongly advise you against this because you'd die for shit.
Not unprobably even for people who'd tear you to pieces and rape you to death as soon as they learn that you're gay. (Even if your fellow fighters aren't Nazis, Eastern Europe and Russia meanwhile has grown a pretty remarkable problem with gays. Insisting on the "traditional lifestyle" with wife and kids a lot pretty persistently.)

Otherwise - in a manner of state and diplomatic affairs, this would be highly problematic also.
You could end up in a military jail for the rest of your life, if you didn't die in the war.
Why? Because it's an act punishable by law to fight in a foreign war which there is no order for. Even to civilians.

Saying... This isn't any different than what the Islamic State or Al Quaida did! It's fucking terrorism! Foreigners gathering in a land in order to fight for something particular, with no order from anybody but themselves - what else classifies as that?

You fucking keep your butt where it is. It's not gonna end well for you.

[kanzeon_2040]

If I were more suicidal this could be an attractive way out, heh. I'll rather content myself with re-reading George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia".

[matrixmann]

In that case you're right. Even though, I could think of less painful ways to put an end to one's life... In the end you wouldn't know if the first bullet strikes you down or if you'd get torn into two halves by a bomb (but make it to survive with half the body) or if your comrades had their way with you, torturing you to death.

By the way, playing a few computer games don't make you able to handle a gun and make you capable to kill real people with it.

(That's right. Rather stay with some book. This is a better idea... (Although I dislike people bringing up Orwell so much since I know he was a sworn anti-communist.)

[kanzeon_2040]

It's clear in this book of his that he's anticapitalist, but not a fan of the Soviet Union.

[matrixmann]

Something that I stumbled over regarding the topic of this offhand glimpse of an idea of yours:

https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/30/us-veteran-fight-ukraine-suicide-mission/

(Just posting this on this "old" topic to do my little share of getting you out of your American dreamy bubble about life.)

[kanzeon_2040]

Interesting stuff. I'm not currently fantasizing about going to Ukraine to fight in the war. But it does seem the news we're seeing in the US is completely one-sided, about how heroic Ukrainians are, and how the Russians are committing war crimes.

[matrixmann]

But it does seem the news we're seeing in the US is completely one-sided, about how heroic Ukrainians are, and how the Russians are committing war crimes.

"Duh!", I'll say here.
(Mind you, this kind of link stuff I banally stumble over just by hanging around here and checking out what the profound people in the Russian-speaking corner post about war events. - It's not like they completely disregard what takes place in the English news sphere, even not after the bans on several Western media entities in Russia, they even translate texts from there. - Luck for you then as you can check out the original article in English without needing a translator.

In that point, the English-speaking world has horribly turned its back onto the Russian-speaking part of the net, willingly ignoring what it has to say or what it can say about anything.)