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Russian soldier sacrifices himself to perform an airstrike on ISIS
03-26-2016, 01:51 AM
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/rus...is-7626914
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A brave Russian special forces soldier who was on a Rambo-style one man mission to hunt for ISIS militants died a "hero" after calling in an airstrike on HIMSELF.
The fearless officer was directing Russian airstrikes at Islamic State targets near the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria when he was surrounded by terrorists.
Not prepared to go down without a fight, he ordered military officials to drop bombs on his location and died in the blast.
A spokesperson for the Russian military said: "An officer of Russian special operations forces was killed near Palmyra while carrying out a special task to direct Russian airstrikes at Islamic State group targets."
"The officer was carrying out a combat task in Palmyra area for a week, identifying crucial IS targets and passing exact coordinates for strikes with Russian planes.
"The officer died as a hero, he drew fire onto himself after being located and surrounded by terrorists."
I don't know why they put scare quotes around the word "hero". This man is a real hero.
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Russian soldier sacrifices himself to perform an airstrike on ISIS
03-26-2016, 02:08 AM
Quote: (03-26-2016 01:51 AM)fokker Wrote:
I don't know why they put scare quotes around the word "hero". This man is a real hero.
They don't want to overuse the phrase war hero. It would detract from real honorable men like John "Songbird" McCain.
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Russian soldier sacrifices himself to perform an airstrike on ISIS
03-26-2016, 02:23 AM
They're probably just quoting the exact word the spokesperson used to describe him.
Pretty ballsy stuff, going out by himself. Not something I'd want to do. I'm sure dying in an [airstrike] was a much nicer way of going out than he would've had if the terrorists caught him.
Edit - reading comprehension fail
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Russian soldier sacrifices himself to perform an airstrike on ISIS
03-26-2016, 06:15 AM
Meanwhile in the States, students are traumatized and need counselling for seeing "Trump 2016" written on the walls/stairs.
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Russian soldier sacrifices himself to perform an airstrike on ISIS
03-26-2016, 08:46 AM
I don't want to sound like a sucker for what might be Russian propaganda but if this it true then I hope that man's family are well taken care of for the rest of their lives.
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Russian soldier sacrifices himself to perform an airstrike on ISIS
03-26-2016, 09:10 AM
Truly badass. Sounds like he was the Russian version of a combat controller. Probably air dropped in just to paint targets. That's an insanely dangerous mission for just a lone man to do. We'll probably never know exact details but I wonder how the ISIS scumbags bracketed his location.
I wouldn't be terribly surprised if certain nation's intel operatives monitoring traffic and supporting the "moderate" ISIS groups got him killed. ISIS are just mostly degenerate primitives worshiping a sand god so I doubt they did it all on their own.
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Russian soldier sacrifices himself to perform an airstrike on ISIS
03-26-2016, 09:12 AM
To play devils advocate, how can a foreigner who is killing locals, be surrounded and then killed by terrorists? Just a funny thought...if he was in another country killing people, how are the people trying to stop him from killing anymore locals, terrorists? Not trying to start an argument on the merit of the war, but I refuse to let the press dictate to me what words mean and what they do not. The article is obviously attempting to steer the reader to a specific view, rendering it biased.
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Russian soldier sacrifices himself to perform an airstrike on ISIS
03-26-2016, 09:48 AM
My problem was with the use of the words "surrounded by terrorists" when, by definition, the infidel was the one terrorizing. Yes, any government propaganda is worthless. Your argument that the propaganda turned out to be on the "right" side of things makes no difference. It is the same argument as "you are only afriad of the government searching your possesions if you have something to hide, so invite them in your bedroom!" How on earth are you expecting to get by with an 'ends justify the means' argument?
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Russian soldier sacrifices himself to perform an airstrike on ISIS
03-26-2016, 10:07 AM
Quote: (03-26-2016 09:48 AM)sylo Wrote:
My problem was with the use of the words "surrounded by terrorists" when, by definition, the infidel was the one terrorizing...
Bollocks. Syria is a country. The Russian is there fighting under the banner of said country with the approval of its governing body.
Are you arguing that ISIS is engaging in some sort of morally legitimate secession?
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Russian soldier sacrifices himself to perform an airstrike on ISIS
03-26-2016, 11:08 AM
Quote: (03-26-2016 09:48 AM)sylo Wrote:
My problem was with the use of the words "surrounded by terrorists" when, by definition, the infidel was the one terrorizing.
Terrorism has a specific meaning. It means using terror to achieve political aims. Russia hasn't been sneaking into Islamic State and blowing up shopping centers, and saying "submit or I'll blow up more". They've been attacking IS forces, which is just "combat". It's also retaliatory, 3rd-party policing, since IS aggressed against others first.
IS on the other hand, has been pretty openly claiming to do terrorist attacks, where a bunch of guys sneak into a country and murder a bunch of civilians to strike terror into the citizens of that country. That makes them terrorists, in the same way Robespierre's government was comprised of terrorists. That is not the same as IS bombing EU military installations.
So saying he was 'surrounded by terrorists' is technically true, even if 'surrounded by enemy soldiers' would be more accurate.
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Russian soldier sacrifices himself to perform an airstrike on ISIS
03-26-2016, 12:02 PM
Theres a good movie that came out recently about a similar situation involving Canadian Snipers. Its called Hyena Road if anyone wants to check it out.
RIP.