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
— CNN (@CNN) June 15, 2022
These guys will get no concessions from Biden, so they will hang. That is my prediction.
I expect they are they because of some sort of under-the-table initiative from the Biden people. But they will still be left to hang.
Sad, to give up one’s life for a nothing reason like this.
Adults make their own decisions and will no pay the price.
Screw ’em let ’em hang
no sympathies whatsoever
fact:. neither of those two fools are combat experienced..fat and stupid.
Darwin’s awards
Putin likes the spotlight. Whatever he does with them will be aired internationally and drug out for months for maximum effect. Probably televised trials. It’s going to be a publicity nightmare for the Biden administration that will dog him through and long past the midterms.
Too bad it won’t change the outcome of the elections though since they will be rigged again.
No publicity nightmare for FJB. The lickspittle MSM will simply suppress the truth as always and as always tens of millions of idiot Americans will remain willfully ignorant.
And “rally ’round the flag!” because finally proof of “Russian persecution!”
These guys were VOLUNTEERING to fight for the Ukrainian “good guys,” and Russia is already colored as the “bad guys,” those bad guys America has been “fighting” through a “cold war” for over 60 years, right?
See? We never should have celebrated the fall of the Soviet Union! Russians can’t be trusted, and here they are targeting Americans again!
The administration and its puppeteers need to ramp this up and stir the people’s emotions to fever pitch against Russia again. We NEED this war, people! War ends “recession,” inflation, “depression”! War is the HEALTH of the state and its unthinking “patriots.”
Just watch. Ain’t the first time.
Probably ain’t the last time, either.
These American animals should be executed on the battlefield when caught and sent straight to Hell. Those filthy bastards are throwing more fuel on the fire and are guilty of MURDER. The images of their dead corpses should then be posted as a warning to all other Rambo’s out there. signed, A US VET
They’re big boys, they knew what they were doing. Russia can put them in the camps with the other prisoners. I do not care – they weren’t fighting for America.
So many posters seem to believe that the USA is the sole inhabitant of the planet. Isolationism and adoration of Putin is just plain dumb.
“Isolationism”? Please explain.
“Adoration of Putin”? Please explain.
Then please learn what the American War for Independence was really all about, and precisely who was for or against what.
Francis Marion would NEVER have endorsed “My country, right or wrong.”
“Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, is likely to demand significant concessions to release them.” But do we want them back?
NO.
They knew what they were getting paid for. Mercs are loyal only to their next paycheck.
Successful mercs choose their paychecks wisely, and include an exit plan should things go sideways.
These two didn’t choose wisely, nor did they have an exit plan, in the most Deep-State corrupted zone on earth.
They got caught fighting the Russian military…they’re in Russian military jurisdiction now.
There’s nothing written anywhere where Americans are to be treated any different than any other merc caught fighting in a war zone.
Soldiers of Fortune, mercs are paid killers, no different than mafia hit men.
Some people are trying to romanticize these people in the same way they did with international volunteers in the Spanish civil war and how noble these ‘volunteers’ are.
But Ukraine is a Deep State/Cabal sewer and the price of ignorance is death.
Biden won’t lift a finger and will memory hole or block out any mention of Americans fighting in Ukraine.
It requires a special kind of stupid to risk your life for a corrupt and in incompetent puppet regime controlled by State Department meddles. Hang em high.
Meddlers. Dang autocorrect wrong again!
Talk about ‘useful idiots’… There should be a picture of them in the dictionary beside the term.
So do we think the deep state media complex will try to get us care about these guys? Will there be tearful relatives “speaking out”? Childhood friends extolling their virtues and saying how they would always take on bullies? They tried to make us care about the idiot woman basketball player, after all.
“Eff them mercenaries”
At this point, I don’t see executions even for mercs except possibly for the few who have been captured and identified as participating in the torture/execution of the DPR prisoners who were shot in the legs while tied. The rest are bargaining chips to the extent that the elites give a rat’s ass. It’s reported that mercs are the first to be sent to the front by Ukraine (cannon fodder).
I don’t believe anything from “deep state” dc swamp!! They have declared war on America! The real enemies are the installed clown and sell out legislators!!
I know this audience knows… but.. PLEASE DONT GO TO UKRAINE! They are NOT winning. This is a real army on the other side.
I’m sad for their families but they should never have been over there.
These two had best get to know Jesus, and then get their last will and testament all ironed out, as they are as good as dead.
I won’t weep for them. They knew what they were getting into.
These absolutely stupid idiots are headed for the firing squad. It’s the end of an ideology picnic.
To get them out, it will take a splooge of wonga.
I believe the correct term is: “Terminate with extreme prejudice”. I heard that a lot during our great second place effort in SE Asia. I drank the Kool-Aid back then. But by the Grace of God, I survived.
Read this from another blog:
Gonzalo Lira: “Oh boy. So one of the Americans captured in Ukraine, Robert Drueke, is not a trained combat soldier—he’s a chemical weapons specialist.”
These aren’t men in American uniform serving the people, they were serving themselves.
Given the background of one of the mercs as an NBCR specialist there is a more sinister connotation is that they’re covert US contractors sent to train the Ukrainian military in ‘specialist’ grade weapons, which is even more terrifying.
Another 40b for prisoners sounds like Blinken and Sullivan’s style with Pelosi if they can figure a vote angle…
Putin is putting it on the goebbelists and there isn’t a dang thing they can do to stop it. You think Russia might have a bone to pick with the globalists after what they’ve done to their country over the last century.
Notice the current regime and their puppet masters don’t really have control over our military? I bet they can’t account for 10% of the billions they are fleecing from us, and sending over there. The goebbelists can care less about Ukranian people, they are merely cattle to them.
Yes isn’t it a huge coincidence that the NATO militaries aren’t automatically jumping into the fight when the politicians are doing everything they can to start WW3? The Cabal desperately need WW3 to cover up their crimes and evidence in Ukraine and to kick off their Great Reset.
The WEF and the globalists are apoplectic over the fact that the sheep are no longer buying their narratives in the MSM and that they’re being cutoff at the knees everywhere(Musk taking Twitter, 2000 Mules exposure, failure of the Covid scam due to Omicron etc).
They’re still pushing everything they can such as the coming famine they’re trying to engineer and their central bank digital currency but it’s too late, their Great Reset is toast as the Great Awakening is taking its place.
For many of them only a dismal fate awaits them in the near future.
Well, Hillary Clinton isn’t in charge so I’d say they have a good sporting chance.