Texan Moved Family to Russia to Flee “Woke” – Now He’s Headed to Ukraine Front Line

https://www.thedailybeast.com/texan-moved-fam-to-russia-to-flee-wokenow-hes-headed-to-ukraine-front-line/

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  1. As per [original article](https://www.thedailybeast.com/texan-moved-fam-to-russia-to-flee-wokenow-hes-headed-to-ukraine-front-line/) 📰:

    An American father who moved to Russia to avoid LGBTQ+ “indoctrination” for his kids is being sent to the front line against Ukraine despite being assured he would serve in a non-combat role.

    Derek Huffman, 46, feels he is being “thrown to the wolves” after being told that his job in the military would be as a correspondent or as a welder, his wife, DeAnna, said in a recorded plea for prayers, which has since been removed from her YouTube page.

    Huffman has no prior military experience, DeAnna said, adding that his limited training was conducted in Russian. She suggested this language barrier has made her husband particularly unprepared for the horrors of combat.

    “Unfortunately, when you’re taught in a different language, and you don’t understand the language, how are you really getting taught?” she pondered. “You’re not. So, unfortunately, he feels like he’s being thrown to the wolves right now, and he’s kind of having to lean on faith, and that’s what we’re all doing.”

    Huffman joined the military in the hope of gaining Russian citizenship for his family through an expedited process. He also felt such service would allow him to “earn” the respect of his new countrymen, which is something he once said migrants in the United States refuse to do.

    “The point of this act for me is to earn a place here in Russia,” he told Russian state media last month. “If I risk myself for our new country, no one will say that I am not a part of it. Unlike migrants in America who come there just like that, do not assimilate, and at the same time want free handouts.”

    Undocumented migrants cannot join the U.S. military during peacetime. A program launched by former President George W. Bush allowed such immigrants to seek citizenship by serving in the military, but that pathway was shuttered during President Donald Trump’s first term.

    DeAnna, 42, suggested her husband had been misled during the military recruiting process. She added that, after a month of service, her family had yet to receive any pay.

    “When he signed up and had all of that done, he was told he would not be training for two weeks and going straight to the front lines,” she said. “But it seems as though he is getting one more week of training, closer to the front lines, and then they are going to put him on the front lines.”

    Huffman moved his family to a rural village outside Moscow this spring. It was launched by American blogger Tim Kirby—who has lived in Russia for two decades—in 2023 to attract Americans seeking to escape the “liberal gender norm.” That project has been a flop, with United24Media reporting that only two families, including the Huffmans, have moved in.

    Huffman, a native Texan, brought his wife, three daughters, and their family Husky, “Baby,” with him to Russia. The couple also has three sons from prior marriages who opted to remain in the United States.

    Huffman’s admiration for Russia runs deep. The Russian state-operated news agency RIA Novosti reported last month that the couple honeymooned in Moscow.

  4. Don’t let the drones hit ya where the good Lord split ya

  6. Thoughts and prayers hoss. Anywho, release the Epstein list!

  8. I watched a few of their videos out of curiosity earlier this week. His wife also said they can’t even afford a used car, and she’s an alcoholic who has now relapsed and started drinking again. They’ve truly adopted the Russian lifestyle.

  9. Awesome. Can’t wait to see him doing 🙏 to a drone.

  11. Omg they didnt even learn to speak russian, then his wife actually complains he was *“taught in a different language, and you don’t understand the language, how are you really getting taught?”* in reference to his russian military training, and then he condescendingly brags about his superiority to migrants in america who *”do not assimilate, and at the same time want free handouts”*

    Dude isnt even trying to learn russian and is living in a village with just them and one other american family, and is complaining that the country he migrated to isnt doing enough to cater to him

    The magnitude of stupidity and hypocrisy these anti-woke loons display is dumbfounding 🤣

  16. If he’s a trained welder he might actually be useful. Good thing he’ll just be chased out into a minefield to clear it out cheaply.

  18. He joined, he wasn’t grabbed off the street. He joined of his own free will! His wife said it was no surprise to her!

  20. I remember in the early days of the war a feisty old Ukrainian woman confronted a Russian soldier and gave him seeds to put in his pocket so at least sunflowers would grow after he died there. I can’t think of a more woke ending for this jamoke than to end up being fertilizer for sunflowers.

  21. The Ukrainian suicide drones are not woke, so he should be thrilled.

  22. This is straight hilarious but I’m kinda surprised they didn’t figure this idiot was more useful as a propagandist than a bullet sponge.

  23. He didn’t know what he was running *to*, any better than he knew what he was running *from*.

    Color me shocked.

  24. They’d rather be Russian than a Democrat! Wishes do come true!

  26. Godspeed patriot. There is no more manly way to demonstrate your anti-wokeness than to dei for the empire’s wars.

  28. There’s actually a non-zero chance that he’ll get his face eaten by an actual Leopard tank that had been donated to Ukraine.

  29. This guy is 46 years old. And he’s from Texas. *Texas* apparently is too “woke” for this jackass.

  30. Ok so I typically don’t wish something bad on anyone. But his position on LGBT and my literal lifetime of being fed news and propaganda to be against Russia just leaves me without even a shred of compassion. May he get everything that he has worked so hard to deserve

  31. > The couple also has three sons from prior marriages who opted to remain in the United States.

    lol

  32. Sadly about to grow some sunflowers out there is all hewill accomplish and his kids will grow up fatherless.

  33. I hope at least he’s got sunflower seeds in his pocket.

  34. Myself, as a Southern California native with LGBTQ+ and a shitload of immigrant friends, feel so damned owned right now.

    Going back to my fajitas and wishing that idiot a quick passing from Ukrainian drones and hoping he put some sunflower seeds in his pockets.

  35. While I’m glad that this moron and his wife fucked around and found out I’m sad for the poor kids. They don’t deserve this.

  37. I feel incredibly bad for the daughters being in this situation because their parents thought moving to war time Russia was preferable to maybe seeing some queers in their neighborhood. Kids shouldn’t suffer because their parents bigots to a pathological level.

  38. Every once in a while somebody gets exactly what they deserve.

  42. Leaving a Bunch of young girls alone in Russia with no money that don’t speak the language. What could go wrong?

  43. I feel awful for the kids they dragged along. What a fool.

  44. “The point of this act for me is to earn a place here in Russia,” he told Russian state media last month. “If I risk myself for our new country, no one will say that I am not a part of it. Unlike migrants in America who come there just like that, do not assimilate, and at the same time want free handouts.”

    Man hates immigrants and LGBT stuff so much that he moved his family to a dystopian hell-hole where he’s going to be killed and his family left to suffer impoverishment and abuse for years and years under the decaying Russian state.

    The only people I feel bad for are their kids but this is what happens when a society lets parental rights outweigh a child’s well-being: you let jackasses move to a tyrannical wasteland with no cultural knowledge or familial ties and completely fuckover their own children.

    No different than allowing a set of parents to airdrop the whole family into isolated Alaskan wilderness with no supplies and hope for the best.

    We live among frustratingly stupid and destructive clowns.

  45. This is the same issue with anti-vaxxers. They’ve lived a life that is so pampered and safe that they can’t even comprehend the danger of their actions. It is unfathomable to him and her that they would ever be put in danger or treated poorly because they lived such pampered lives in the US.

    Well, they are about to find out what danger actually looks like, and it’s not the lesbian couple down the street.

  47. Didn’t the last guy to do this get sodomized with a broom handle and murdered by his squadmates? Why tf would you ever think this was a good idea? Hope he likes sunflowers at least.

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