Indians are unwittingly recruited into the Russian army
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The guy promises that they wouldn't be sent to the frontlines in the video, and was clearly lying.
He also recruits in Nepal and Pakistan, and the Nepali recruits mentioned probably came from his labor recruitment agency as well.
It's clearly breaking multiple India and UAE labor laws, and don't be surprised if his agency gets shut down.
Working as a mercenary is a felony in India.
Also, this is clearly irrelevant for HN.
It might be relevant if India gets really unhappy about it, but they might also just kick up a small diplomatic stink then move on. 20 people in India would be doing well to register as a rounding error, the Indians appear to have been benefiting greatly from the war and one of their major diplomats has been talking a lot about making sure the Russian's have diplomatic options. So maybe it is a big deal or not, it really depends on India's response before there is anything interesting to note.
Not sure though if calling 20 possibly dead people a "rounding error" is appropriate.
HN has some pretty reasonable guidelines about what it is for. This isn't it. And it also isn't a powerful story on its own, we need to know what India's response is. Unless maybe there is something meaty behind the paywall?
It looks like we're getting articles that are more Europe focused.
To Europeans, this seems more relevant, but isn't as much to North Americans
While Russia is absolutely a major threat, the mutual feeling of danger that both China and the US have of each other dwarfs any supposed feeling about Russia.
You might be right with carrier groups
https://news.usni.org/2024/02/05/usni-news-fleet-and-marine-...
The bitter truth is any Russian aggression will be fought back by German, Turkish, Polish, Ukrainian, French, etc bodies.
We don't have a similar buffer with China beyond the inner ring, as our treaty allies (Japan+SK) will have their hands full with NK.
The only time the US was invaded by a foreign army in the 20th century was the Japanese invasion of Alaska along with the invasion of (then) American Phillipines
"The bitter truth is any Russian aggression will be fought back by German, Turkish, Polish, Ukrainian, French, etc bodies."
As a European, I think this is a good thing, not relying on the US.
Maybe being shanghaied into an army is not new but it is new in the context of contemporary war.
The first tier is for a so called "meat attack". You don't need no training for this, nor are you expected to survive. They preferably use prisoners/foreigneres/migrants/non-ethnic russians for these echelons.