I have zero sympathy for anyone who agreeded to travel to a war zone.
Every corpse advances the cause of a just end to the war. If they want to live they ought to surrender.
Every corpse advances the cause of a just end to the war. If they want to live they ought to surrender.
The Russians that have successfully surrendered have claimed their officers will shoot their own soldiers for surrendering in view of them. In addition the Ukrainians have to treat anyone who doesn't follow directions as potential perfidy - fake surrenders - there's several videos of Russians pretending to surrender and continuing to fight when the Ukrainians get close.
One is pretty much screwed once they are sent to the frontlines on the Russian side.
You clearly haven't been paying attention.
Not only is Russia luring immigrants with false promises of employment and naturalization to pull a bait and switch and press them into the frontline roles, they are also coercing immigrants who they deem have expired visas to serve as cannon fodder.
https://statskenya.co.ke/at-stats-kenya/about/number-of-peop...
The rest are not completely uninformed nor stupid. News does still tend to trickle out over 11 years. They could also have insisted on someone to read what they are signing or refused the job change when they found out they would be murdering people even if it meant rotting in prison. Instead he said.
"Mum, the job we were told we came to do has been changed, but even this one is not bad"
Don't take the agency from them. Kenyans are not stupid, they are going to Russia voluntarily, expecting that they will work or study somewhere in Russia while ignoring a all the evidence that they will most likely be sent to a meat grinder on the frontlines.
What? It's pretty clear it's the other way around: claiming that Kenyans are pressed to Russia's frontline because they are too stupid to Google the job proposals they accept is undescribable. Again: what Russia is doing throughout the world is blatant human trafficking to amass cannon fodder. They even do this to Russians who sign military contracts, who are promised cushy logistics positions back in Russia but then they see themselves rushed to the front lines to form suicide assault groups.
They volunteer to join the armed forces once they are promised cushy non-combat positions in the homeland or in the rear. Then they are pressed to form suicide assault groups to execute Zapp Brannigan tactics. Who do you think they are fooling with this assumption that everyone in Russia is suicidal?
It's not for lack of google. This is poor young men being willfully naive hoping for a chance to support family and self. They seem perfectly deserving of sympathy.
These poor young Estonians are being willfully naive, they just want to support their family, so they joined the 20th SS division. Do you think that they got any sympathy from allies?
The Ukrainian SS division got plenty of sympathy from non-USSR allies post-WW2. We can see their symbols proudly on display today in Ukraine's Azov brigade. Here you are displaying your sympathy for this legacy.
I recommend looking past the labels and extending sympathy to all humans trapped in this conflict.
It seems the world is not as black-and-white as you want it to be. Sympathies should be shifted from irresponsible leaders and over to people who are trapped in this unfortunate war. Kenyans included.