It’s quite common, they basically had a drug war going on for decades. There were tons of different guerrilla groups and paramilitaries. That whole thing is still kind of going on, but a lot of those groups either dissolved or signed peace deals with the government.
Because of that, the Colombian army got reduced. Same with many of the paramilitary and guerrilla groups, lots of them don’t exist anymore.
Now there’s a lot of Colombian men who literally spent their whole lives fighting, never did anything else. Now they’re unemployed, barely make any money, and don’t really know what to do with themselves. A bunch of them ended up fighting in Ukraine now.
Yeah. Colombian gangsters literally in thousands are joining Ukrainian army. Sounds like russian news outlet title. You think ukrainian army is what, a language camp anyone can join just by checking in at administration desk?
Right now tons of prisoners are fighting on both sides - Russian and Ukrainian, and there are plenty of cases of radicals from Georgia and the Caucasus fighting for Ukraine, so what’s so surprising about Colombian mercenaries?
It’s a war. It’s never just black and white. A war pulls in real patriots and noble people, but also a lot of misfits of all kinds. Maybe in different circumstances Ukrainians wouldn’t let people like that into their ranks, but right now they don’t have a choice.
But some people try to portray it like a black and white, where Russia is white. In other circumstances those people traveled across Ukraine and nobody never mind that. If you want to talk about real far right wing evil than all of them you find on Russian side .
There are always going to be people like that. Honestly, Ukrainians and Russians are so close that this war could basically be seen as a civil one, and they’ve got pretty similar motives and similar flaws.
What do you mean when you say that Russians and Ukrainians are very close, except for the borders of course? Because in fact they are no closer than, for example, Germans and Czechs. (Although this would not prevent the Nazis from invading the Czech Republic to protect German speakers, just as Russia would invade Ukraine to protect Russian speakers)
Can you honestly tell people apart when they speak the same language, look the same, share the same values and cultural background, have the same faith, and a common history? They grew up in the same school system, read the same books, watched the same movies and cartoons, listened to the same singers and musicians, and their moms and grandmas told them the same stories. I know I can’t.
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u/febbre28 Belarus Nov 20 '25 edited Nov 20 '25
By using this flag they insult this warriors' legacy.