Queen’s Guard, 19, ‘among four squaddies who have gone AWOL to fight in Ukraine’

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  1. That’s the risk you take when you allow teenagers to join the military I suppose. 🤷‍♂️

  2. “It has caused panic at the Ministry of Defence, with security chiefs urgently trying to intercept the teenager amid fears Vladimir Putin may try and claim Britain has entered the war if he is captured.”

  3. When reporting on this story, The Sun’s front page called these lads “heroes”.

    They aren’t heroes, they’re deserters. And either going to get killed without making an impact or likely to make a bad situation worse.

  4. “Queen’s Guard” – what a moronic headline. He’s in the Coldstream Guards, part of the Household regiments, it’s not as if he’s hiding behind her curtains with a Walther PK45 and a silencer.

  5. The head of the UK armed forces, Adm Sir Tony Radakin, said on the news a couple of days ago that any current serving personnel are forbidden from going to Ukraine, and it is illegal for them to go to to help in the fight. In a nutshell they’re fucked.

  6. Gone to scalp himself a real fur hat while wrestling the Russian bear. I hope he won’t be wearing his bright red tunic!

  7. Fair play. This generation has become so accustomed to peace that its turned soft. At least there’s still some out there willing to die to fight oppression.

    Politicians today are all paper-waving Neville Chamberlain’s ilk. Very few Churchill’s. There might be a nuclear war! Like it gives nations a free pass to do what they want. Dumb fucking argument.

  8. As much as I want to praise the heart behind the act, it could go horribly wrong. Putin could use him and others like him as proof of NATO aggression.

  9. Half the people in this thread would be shitting on Orwell had reddit been around 90 years ago.

    He’s a peacetime soldier going to fight for a good cause in the name of protecting the rest of Europe. Laws be damned, it’s the principles that count.

  10. >Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, who served in the Scots Guards, has previously urged Britons not to travel to Ukraine to join the fighting as he said the ‘very dangerous’ situation could lead to them being killed.

    He’s just mad that they might get killed fighting for a just cause than for oil.

    Ben Wallace can go fuck himself

  11. As if there aren’t already UK special forces deployed in Ukraine, likely someone like the pathfinders.

    Why do you think Ukraine knows exactly where to shoot every time they destroy a Russian convoy?

    You can’t do that without satellites alone

  12. Great article, I’m sure posting all that with a pixilated face will deter any one from any foreign agencies from identifying him instantly if they so desired.

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