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The part where he looks off to the side seeking validation and approval is all I needed to see. Pathetic, sad, dangerous person.
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I’m taking notes, as I am totally out of shape and far too fat.
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Sad to say, that is my Mother-in-Law, here in the UK. She’s in her late 80s. She and her husband (now deceased) decided that the BBC was so biased, they would watch RT instead. That was ten years ago. Now her head is filled with Russian propaganda. She won’t discuss international politics with us because she knows what we will say. She thinks Covid is a hoax, too, but she does consent to mask up 
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Just how kosher is that OP video? Those armoured personnel carriers had (very sloppily) daubed “RUS” in non-cyrillic characters. Whoever he’s with, I’m convinced they aren’t Russian.
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According to the Texas Monthly article he lives in the “Donetsk People’s Republic”, carries a “Donetsk People’s Republic” passport and is married to a local woman. If he isn’t really embedded with Russian soldiers in Ukraine he must have faked the video in the “DPR”, so there’s no doubt whose side he is on.
Only one of the vehicles appears to have “RUS” markings, so he might have asked the soldiers to paint it for the enlightenment of his viewers.
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My nesting partner wondered about that as well. She pointed out the non-cyrillic characters, not only the RUS, but apparently some of them have “Z” as well. (I’ll admit I had missed that, overwhelmed with the stupidity of the whole thing as I was.) Is this a local thing or did this mope somehow convince his Russian “buddies” to let him do this?
Also, I read as much of the Texas Monthly article as I could stomach. Did the writers for TM just accept this guy’s word for his apparently Rambo-like abilities or do they completely lack fact checkers? The claims for his exploits seem rather dubious to me.
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The Z symbol is carried by many of the Russian military vehicles taking part in the invasion. Depending on who you ask, it serves to distinguish Russian vehicles from the same models belonging to the Ukrainian army, or it was left over from the exercises in Belarus, or it is something else entirely.
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He’s not the hero Putin needs, but he’s the hero Putin deserves.
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@GoatCheezInfrno: I’ve been singing that song all morning. It’s a bit of an earworm.
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Well if this isn’t the definition of an “illegal combatant”, I don’t know what is.
I imagine they can reserve a suite for him at Guantanamo.
Not sure what the procedure is to strip a citizen of their citizenship but if he took an oath when he joined their military, I’d have to say that ought to qualify.
Has anyone verified this isn’t just a drunk making a video in front of stock footage?
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Of course they won’t. He’ll get away with it, because he’s not helping Muslims, but “good, white, Christian Russians”…
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If the article in Texas Monthly is to be believed, he renounced it. Together with him serving in a foreign army, now in an illegal war of aggression, that should be enough I’d think. Details are in Relinquishment of United States nationality - Wikipedia but ultimately it would have to be done in a court.
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You can’t as a native born citizen of the US, you have to actively give it up. Joining a foreign military in your own is a good starter, though. And unlike Germany the US doesn’t care wether you then become stateless.
Naturalised citizens can get denaturalised, when naturalisation had been achieved fraudulently. The US allows that, as does Germany, though the latter has a time limit of some ten years or so I believe.
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