As Russia’s war in Ukraine grinds on, the Russian military has gone to significant lengths to pad its ranks, including by recruiting foreign fighters from developing countries with promises of high salaries and bonuses.
Do people not research even a little bit about what’s going on in the country that they are going to work? Like is there any problems that they can face, especially if they obviously know that they are in a war right now, and don’t know local language and laws.
Russia has an infamously capable propaganda sector and Peruvians have seen the bad side of US-American and European empires. It doesn’t strike me as too unreasonable that a desperate person could be convinced that news sources from those countries can’t be trusted and the Russian media can.
Probably a little bit, but “you’ll get drafted into the Russian army” is going to seem too outrageous to be true, especially since Russian propaganda will absolutely be saying it is.
Do people not research even a little bit about what’s going on in the country that they are going to work? Like is there any problems that they can face, especially if they obviously know that they are in a war right now, and don’t know local language and laws.
Well, sometimes you find yourself somewhere you wouldn’t go and you gotta do what you gotta do.
Usually when you live in South America you don’t find yourself in r*ssia suddenly.
Russia has an infamously capable propaganda sector and Peruvians have seen the bad side of US-American and European empires. It doesn’t strike me as too unreasonable that a desperate person could be convinced that news sources from those countries can’t be trusted and the Russian media can.
Probably a little bit, but “you’ll get drafted into the Russian army” is going to seem too outrageous to be true, especially since Russian propaganda will absolutely be saying it is.