A contracted mercenary has no legal recognition or protection as a prisoner of war. Two American mercenary soldiers have been captured by Russian forces and now present a rather unique issue for the Biden administration. The traditional end result for captured mercenaries is execution; however, Russian President Vladimir Putin may not want to hang these two State Dept. conscripts.
(Via Telegraph) – Two former US servicemen have been captured during fighting with Russian forces in Ukraine, The Telegraph has been told. The pair were taken prisoner during a fierce battle outside the north-east city of Kharkiv last week, according to comrades who were fighting alongside them.
Alexander Drueke, 39, and Andy Huynh, 27, had been serving as volunteers with a regular Ukrainian army unit. They are believed to be the first US servicemen to end up as Russian prisoners of war. They join a growing number of Western military volunteers captured by Russian forces, including at least two Britons.
Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner have already been told they face the death penalty as “mercenaries”. The capture of the two Americans will be diplomatically sensitive as the Kremlin may seek to use it as proof that America is becoming directly involved in the war. Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, is likely to demand significant concessions to release them. (read more)
Two Americans fighting alongside Ukrainian forces north of Kharkiv have been missing for nearly a week and there are fears that they may have been captured by Russian forces, according to their families and a fellow fighter https://t.co/eLbuXUr9pF
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“…Kremlin may seek to use it as proof that America is becoming directly involved in the war.”
BECOMING??? We’re the direct cause of the conflict and have been involved since before the 2014 coup… Chip
What is it? 168 bases ’round the world? It’s my understanding that some of ’em are under severe economic constraints. Only 1 golf course.
Not Air Force bases. They build golf courses, swimming pools and bowling alleys before they pave runways.
should be illegal. it seems US jewish kids are more likely to join the IDF than the US military
Yeah to take a run at that IDF pussy , they do sport some lookers I’ll give em that.
Huge tracts of land
Those are all ringers.
In 10 years I worked with one 1/2 jew who was too arrogant to be an effective PL. We traded him for a better one.
Live by the sword, die by the sword. You make decisions in life, sometimes you make a bad one. Life is short and stupid choices can make it shorter. GET SOME ROPE!
Blackwater under the bridge. (Don’t drive on the span if still there)
The point? It’s Academi™…c now. Incorporated in delaware, yet?
I’m curious to know their military background, probably grunts. Anyway, serves them right getting involved in that shit for a paycheck. No sympathy from this former soldier.
I was considering making this a QOTD. Okay, so let’s do a quick poll instead;
Q; What should Putin do with these two mercenaries?
UP vote = Execute them
DOWN vote = Release them
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Me?
UP vote …… unless Putin can gain some major concession (for example; exchanging the two mercenaries for Pelosi & Da Ho and executing them instead).
Some good, old fashion forced propaganda vids would be interesting to see, but no media here would air it.
Maybe some “deep fakes” using their images saying the State Dept sent them would make some waves.
Well, being a mercenary does have its risks. Fighting in wars could get you hurt or killed!
Dementia just authorized ANOTHER billion in arms and humanitarian aid to country 404. No, it is NOT coming from that $50 billion package …. it is in addition to!
Fuck this fucking bullshit fucking shithole!! On to more important things
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The NY comPost had this picture of Ozzie the other day. He looks like shit.
Of course, he looks like shit: you also noticed that awful nail polish.
Bite a bat.
Pay the price.
I’m shocked he’s still alive after all of the alcohol and acid.
My exact response to the news of the additional billion.
Ozzie get the vax?
I’m late in learning the vax most likely took out Yes drummer. Too terribly sad.
who croaks first? ozzy osborne or keith richards?
Zero fucks given. All the SOF shit isn’t what it’s cracked up to be eh?
These are outstanding ‘Murkin contractors. Like the kind the U.S.S.A. has busy doing the Lord’s work around the globe, helping to “bring them Democracy.”
If Vlad was real smart he would, after televised military tribunals, send them to count the birches in Siberia.
Buh Bye mercenary scum! Maybe they will put you in the Blue Dolphin Prison for a while.
I don’t see any American mercenaries willing to take back the streets of Chicago , Atlanta, New York, DC or Detroit from roving gangs of burners , looter and murderers, but let Clown World Faggot start a war anywhere else and bam, the bitchez are there.
You’d think the Vietnamese guy would be reluctant to fight for the Ukies who consider the Russians racially impure with their racial admixture. It’d be funny if he came face to face with the Buriyats.
CIA operation…perhaps SpecOps
Where are our know-it-all secret agent types here? I had a top secret clearance and only knew two top secret things. And those were just frequency patterns which a decent technician could id with a spectrometer.
If you think we do not have our share of operatives via Blackguard types willing to trade guns for whatever the going blackmailed currency is, then I have a little farm outside the Mena, Arkansas, air field I will sell you for a song.
I have not seen this many sellouts in CongessCritter World since Ollie was running drugs for Contra money behind Reagans pre-Alzheimers gaffes.
Every single branch is corrupt. Prepare accordingly.
Molon Labe!
Those two ding dongs aren’t operators. Operators out of the service are making way more money as private trainers/advisors. Those two yokels are likely remfs that didnt realize they werent going to a tactical larp.
Those dudes are straight up juice drinkers and caught up in forced service when their Ukie commander took their passports from them.
ZFG, out.
P.S. former and active operators are running independently of Ukie forces. This much I can guarantee.
The ones I know are doing things like running small businesses. I am glad I missed the wave of lucrative merc contracts. It’s a shitty way to live.
CIA is always changing the names, but it was know they had CAG groups in Ukraine, at least before the invasion. I suspect some of those types got taken from Mariupol from various nationalities.
I don’t think these clowns are anything but what they say they are.
How much you all want to wager that once they got there the fearless Ukies took their passports and forced them into service?
Dumb fuckers earned what they are getting right now. Why in the shit would they willingly give their passports to their “comrade?” That is a classic human trafficking move.
ZFG, out.
Shoot them.
The media is calling these shitheads “volunteers”. I don’t think that will save them at their trial. Only a fool wastes tears on mercs.
Dumbshits, they failed another IQ test.
I’d like to send these dudes info to retired SEAL Don Shipley who verifies service records see what their service records show. Ex leg 11Bs I’d bet.
Chinese officials were asked to comment but could not stop laughing.
They were “fighting alongside Ukrainian forces…” and the presumption is that they were captured? Why not KIA? The word on the street is that they are losing somewhere between 200-1,000 a day and most of those losses are due to arty, so ID is not going to be much beyond “I recognize those boots”.
I’d trade them for a few palettes of cash.
Maybe Russian Federation will outsource torture of unlawful combatants to HM Prison Belmarsh. Then its not Putincrime.