Posted on 04/25/2024 7:30:31 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Russell Bentley, a self-described “Donbass Cowboy,” joined Russian forces soon after they created a proxy state in eastern Ukraine in 2014. He quickly became one of Russian propaganda’s favorite Americans, receiving a Russian passport and a gig with state-run Sputnik TV.
On April 8, the 64-year-old Austin native better known under his call sign “Texas” was detained by Russian soldiers in the city of Donetsk, occupied by Russia for the past decade, according to his wife. Eleven days later, he turned up dead.
He is the latest in a string of figures involved in Russia’s 2014 takeover of parts of eastern Ukraine—dubbed the “Russian Spring”—who are now in their graves or behind bars.
The circumstances behind Bentley’s disappearance are murky. But the incident has already caused outrage in Russian nationalist circles, with popular bloggers and commentators calling for an investigation and decrying what they called an official coverup.
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Yaroslav Trofimov (born 1969) is a Ukrainian-born Italian author and journalist who is chief foreign-affairs correspondent at The Wall Street Journal. Previously he wrote a weekly column on the Greater Middle East, “Middle East Crossroads,” in The Wall Street Journal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Bentley
Russell Bonner Bentley III[1] (Russian: Рассел Бентли, romanized: Rassel Bentli; 1960 – April 2024), also known as Texas and the Donbass Cowboy, was an American man who served in Vostok Battalion and XAH Spetsnaz Battalion in 2014, 2015 and 2017 on the side of the Donetsk People’s Republic. He was a YouTuber until his channel was deleted in early 2022.[2][failed verification] He also worked for the Russian state-owned Sputnik news agency as a war correspondent.[3] Prior to his activities in the Donbas, he was a marijuana activist and smuggler who was later convicted of drug smuggling and spent five years in prison.
Bentley, a self-declared communist, came to global attention in 2022[citation needed], with a series of statements, and videos, about his intention to “liberate Ukraine from Nazis”. By July 2016, he had been baptized into the Russian Orthodox Church.[citation needed]
The Ruzzians raping, beating, and even murdering their own soldiers is a time honored tradition in the Ruzzian military called ‘dedovschina’.
No doubt our rezident Putinistas will be along shortly to tell you that intolerance of faggotry in the Red Army is bigotry. I’m sure we will also be told how this practice makes “men” out of Russian soldiers.
It also explains why 400,000 to 1,000,000 militay age Russian men fled Russia to avoid being conscripted into the world’s largest homosexual rape gang.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedovshchina
Never heard of the guy and don’t remember any articles about him posted here.
Given that, why is he news now?
(rhetorical, we all it serves the purposes of the Neocons)
He’s news right now because of all the rumors about what the Chechens/Buryats did to him before they killed him.
Russell Bentley, a self-described “Donbass Cowboy,”
More like “Dumbass Cowboy”.
There was an article posted here a few days ago and I thought “Oh my. A mercenary got killed. What are the odds?”
Disgusting!
Apparently they thought he was a spy, raped him, and when they realized they were wrong, they murdered him.
Savages.
You do not know all the factions at play and will find yourself up a creek very easily.
And if you do not have a brave and smart wife who is inclined to pull you out, chances are, you are going to end up in a pickle.
A communist from Austin? ... say it aint so. [;o)~
“Quite the snoozefest.”
You’re BORED by reports that Russian troops raped and murdered a man who had been fighting for them for the past ten years?
Wow. Just wow.
Maybe Tucker can go take his place.
Maybe Tucker can go take his place.
LOL I also didn't even read the propaganda so I didn't know about the supposed rape and murder. Now I'll get back with watching videos of DUIs and police chases caught on camera.
Guess he didn’t get the memo that Russia’s no longer Communist.
You’re BORED by reports that Russian troops raped and murdered a man who had been fighting for them for the past ten years?
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You have been drinking senile Joe’s narrative, and obviously have contracted the Russian Derangement Syndrome way back when the Democrats created it.
Your disease can be cured by turning off all Western MSM, taking your mask off ( there is a direct link to the Russian Derangement Syndrome and those that bought into senile Joes Covid vax), and realizing the collective West is not the good guys anymore.
Good luck! …and do NOT take anymore jabs!
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