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Originally Posted by Rochard
And..... Every time you get into a car you run the risk of getting hit and killed. Doesn't mean it's proper to walk up to your spouse or parents and say "You knew the risks".
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Do you understand a difference between an accident and a premeditated murder?
As I said above, in my country every man is a soldier. Course if he is not cripple, has no money for a bribe and is not a son of some politician. If you are not one of those you have to serve in army and you may be sent to a real war (not a boy-scout camp like
Rochard). You will have to kill and you may be killed too. I know a lot of people who were at wars like Afghanistan and Chechnya. All of them are regular guys - they have not signed any contracts and they were not paid for that. For example, a classmate of my wife (the guy who gave flowers to her when he was a boy) has served as a machine gun operator during the Chechen war. In contrast to
Rochard, he is a real veteran who was at real war. Once when we were drinking beer with him, I asked: "how many people did you kill?". He said: "I don't know... maybe 20 or 25... When you fire with a machine gun, the guy just falls. Maybe he's dead, maybe injured or maybe he just stumbled..."
He drinks a lot now and I really feel for him, because he didn't choose to be a killer. He was drafted and pushed out when his service was completed. And there are many guys like him in Russia. They all were trained to kill, some (like that guy) have killed other humans. My brother in law was a member of VDV assault brigade in Afghanistan. He just doesn't tell what he did there (he says he was a cook at the kitchen), but I know what he did and that's won't sound good if I tell it here... Unfortunately. Too many Russian guys did that just because they had - not for money and not for contract and further preferences. As about the professional soldiers who get paid for their service - I don't care and totally agree with Trump - they know what they sign up for - to be killers.