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Posted: 4/12/2024 9:45:08 PM EDT
[Last Edit: fadedsun]
MOSCOW —
Russell Bentley, an American who fought against Ukrainian forces, is missing in the Russian-controlled Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, police there said Friday, adding that a search was underway. Bentley went missing on April 8, according to police. The online news outlet Mash said he had disappeared after a district in the city of Donetsk was shelled by Ukrainian forces. Mash cited his wife as saying he had gone to see if anyone needed help but had not returned. She was quoted as saying she had found his car with his baseball cap in it along with his smashed mobile phone and a pair of glasses. Bentley, 64, is a self-declared supporter of Russian-backed forces in Ukraine. He joined pro-Russian fighters in eastern Ukraine in 2014 and used the military call-sign "Texas," the Russian state news agency RIA reported. It said Bentley had later swapped his gun for journalism and had worked with the Sputnik news agency, another state-owned entity, and obtained Russian citizenship. Russian state media have described Bentley as a war correspondent. In 2022, Rolling Stone magazine ran an interview with Bentley titled "The Bizarre Story of How a Hardcore Texas Leftist Became a Front-line Putin propagandist." Source: Here Russell Bentley, 63 pictured sitting uniforms He claims to be a 'leftist' who read Che Guereva and Ho Chi Minh who inspired him to now fight for Putin “I understood that Fidel and Che were right to overthrow the foreign masters that had turned Cuba into a casino and bordello.” Bentley has said: “I’m anti-racist. I’m anti-imperialist. I grew up supporting people’s rights to defend themselves.” His views neatly coincide with Putin’s. Bentley has posted that he was “heading west with the Liberators of Ukraine. We may stop in Kyiv, we may stop on the English Channel. We may liberate the USA.” A visitor to Cuba, in 1999 he escaped from a minimum security US facility where he was being held for drug trafficking. “I didn’t have to dig a tunnel or take anybody hostage,” he said. “But I did escape from prison.” He was later captured and put in a high-security facility to finish his sentence. After breaking up with his yoga instructor girlfriend, he became a fighter for pro-Putin forces in 2014, though he spoke almost no Russian. He sympathized with the Russian rather than Ukrainian side. “I was on the little guys’ side, defending good people against abjectly evil people,” he said. He has lived in Donbas—Russian-occupied Ukraine—ever since. He now calls himself an information warrior and worked for a media outlet affiliated with Sputnik, a Russian state media outlet. Source: here I remember watching some of his "broadcasts" early on in the war. He's delusional. 
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Posted: 4/12/2024 9:51:38 PM EDT
[#1]
Oh well.
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Posted: 4/12/2024 9:54:01 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/12/2024 9:55:06 PM EDT
[#3]
ohnoanyway.gif
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Posted: 4/12/2024 9:59:31 PM EDT
[#4]
Waste of site resources!
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Posted: 4/12/2024 10:04:46 PM EDT
[#5]
Hopefully he is now a “good communist”.
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Posted: 4/12/2024 10:05:17 PM EDT
[#6]
That fat ass can’t be that hard to find in the rubble.
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Posted: 4/12/2024 10:07:03 PM EDT
[Last Edit: delemorte]
[#7]
That guy always confused me. If you were so determined to go fight for some other country, why Russia? Join the legion and kill Africans if you just got that war boner.
ETA. That's a different dude I think. That cats pretty old to be doing this dumb shit. |
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Posted: 4/12/2024 10:07:37 PM EDT
[#8]
What in the world is a 60 year old doing on a battlefield?
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Posted: 4/12/2024 10:10:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By PacNW5: What in the world is a 60 year old doing on a battlefield? |
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Posted: 4/12/2024 10:10:52 PM EDT
[#10]
I had to Google him… he… looks… crazy…as…fuck…
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/12/2024 10:11:30 PM EDT
[#11]
What an odd world we live in
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Posted: 4/12/2024 10:11:50 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/12/2024 10:13:37 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/12/2024 10:16:10 PM EDT
[#14]
Hopefully he caught a rocket.
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Posted: 4/12/2024 10:19:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By og107: Oh well. FPNI And I would say the same if he was Pro Zelensky Uke Bro that got blown up. |
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Posted: 4/12/2024 10:22:47 PM EDT
[#16]
Bhagdad Bob, meet Donbas Dumbass.
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FL, USA
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Posted: 4/12/2024 10:23:14 PM EDT
[#17]
I'm amazed he made it that long.
I figured his usefulness was up and he got shipped off to the gulag. |
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Posted: 4/12/2024 10:23:52 PM EDT
[#18]
Here’s to hoping the FPV drone footage of his splatter gets posted soon.
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Posted: 4/12/2024 10:25:57 PM EDT
[#19]
I’ve been hoping that cunt bought a good hard death since this shit started.
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Posted: 4/12/2024 10:27:14 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/12/2024 10:28:04 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/12/2024 10:28:25 PM EDT
[#22]
Who are we missing?
 What I don’t understand, is Why an avowed Communist, would fight for Putin? Haven’t we been told that Russia is no longer Commy, and Putin is just a regular capitalist gangster? Why didn’t anyone tell him? 
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Posted: 4/12/2024 10:30:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By PacNW5: What in the world is a 60 year old doing on a battlefield? Fertilizer |
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Posted: 4/12/2024 10:33:27 PM EDT
[#24]
He’s gonna need his homie The_Resurector to show up and perform a miracle on his ass.
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Posted: 4/12/2024 10:38:59 PM EDT
[#25]
Why would a hard-lefty be supportive of the guy who got Trump elected?!
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Posted: 4/12/2024 10:41:58 PM EDT
[Last Edit: 4q2]
[#26]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mikhail_86: Fertilizer Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mikhail_86: Originally Posted By PacNW5: What in the world is a 60 year old doing on a battlefield? Fertilizer Hopefully , sunfowers are flourishing on his final resting spot next year |
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Posted: 4/12/2024 10:44:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By WildBoar: FPNI And I would say the same if he was Pro Zelensky Uke Bro that got blown up. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By WildBoar: Originally Posted By og107: Oh well. FPNI And I would say the same if he was Pro Zelensky Uke Bro that got blown up. Of course. Because in our hedonistic brave new world; there is no right or wrong. Only shades of myob. Because all governments are equally evil and corrupt, so there’s never a good reason to fight and die for any of them. Ever. |
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Posted: 4/12/2024 10:44:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Firefly1032: That fat ass can’t be that hard to find in the rubble. Just look for the pack of dogs that just stuffed there faces eating him 
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USA
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Posted: 4/12/2024 10:45:34 PM EDT
[#29]
Here’s to hoping he’s now a good commie
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Posted: 4/12/2024 10:45:39 PM EDT
[#30]
I didn’t know any left wingers like Putin.
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LA, USA
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Posted: 4/12/2024 10:47:37 PM EDT
[#31]
Fuck that guy
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Posted: 4/12/2024 10:51:05 PM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Karankawa: I didn’t know any left wingers like Putin. He wasn’t there for Putin. He was there for Conquest. A small, but significant difference. |
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GA, USA
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Posted: 4/12/2024 10:53:21 PM EDT
[#33]
Found what he was looking for.
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Posted: 4/12/2024 11:00:24 PM EDT
[#34]
This interview was 8 years ago.
 Meet the Texan Fighting for the DPR: Russian Roulette (Dispatch 107) |
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Posted: 4/12/2024 11:03:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By WildBoar: FPNI And I would say the same if he was Pro Zelensky Uke Bro that got blown up. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By WildBoar: Originally Posted By og107: Oh well. FPNI And I would say the same if he was Pro Zelensky Uke Bro that got blown up. Yeah because its the same thing, helping people defend their home vs helping other people invade it. |
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Posted: 4/12/2024 11:10:43 PM EDT
[#36]
He appears to be a good commie.
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Posted: 4/12/2024 11:14:00 PM EDT
[#37]
good, fuck him.
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USA
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Posted: 4/12/2024 11:15:01 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Inneedofhelp]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 1911fan: Bhagdad Bob, meet Donbas Dumbass. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 1911fan: Bhagdad Bob, meet Donbas Dumbass. This is the spokesman for the Russian defense ministry. I thought the nickname Moscow Mike would have been good for him, but his real name is Igor.  Originally Posted By realwar: This interview was 8 years ago.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cA9cGUGr00Wow....it was him, I was thinking of this guy, the one I had seen Simon Ostrovsky interviewing all of those years ago, and when I looked at some of the still pictures, I wasn't sure it was him, I watched the interview so long ago. |
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Posted: 4/12/2024 11:17:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By realwar: This interview was 8 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cA9cGUGr00What a fucking retard! |
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Posted: 4/12/2024 11:18:33 PM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By realwar: This interview was 8 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cA9cGUGr00Back when Vice News was good |
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Posted: 4/12/2024 11:23:10 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Inneedofhelp]
[#41]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BabaYaga22: Back when Vice News was good I have been trying to learn Russian for a lot of years, I don't think I'll ever become fluent, but my longtime teacher is from Kiev and fled when the war began. I have befriended her and enjoy the lessons. I was glued to those Vice documentaries for awhile, and Simon Ostrovsky and Henry Langston, the British Reporter, did a fantastic job of bringing us frontline coverage of the war all while risking their lives. Simon Ostrovsky was captured by some Novorossiya scum and tortured and held for awhile, and in one of the videos, some artillery is falling close to Langston and his camera crew. I wish I had the health for fighting in this war, but I wouldn't join the Ukrainian side, they don't treat volunteers well. My first and very brief teacher I managed to get in contact with shortly before the war, who I also learned is Ukrainian, had to cut contact with me, as she was living in Russia, and it was too dangerous for her to continue communicating. Fuck this delusional idiot and anyone like him, I'll gladly say "well, bye" to him. |
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Posted: 4/13/2024 6:46:51 AM EDT
[#42]
Self declared communist fighting for Russia.
As ever 
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Posted: 4/13/2024 6:55:50 AM EDT
[#43]
Maybe he was featured in one of the drone attack videos.
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USA
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Posted: 4/13/2024 7:00:17 AM EDT
[#44]
Perhaps he had a starring role in one of the Urkranian drone videos posted here.
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FL, USA
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Posted: 4/13/2024 7:00:53 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Tuco22: good, fuck him. |
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Posted: 4/13/2024 7:09:36 AM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Firefly1032: That fat ass can’t be that hard to find in the rubble. If he took a direct hit, he could be everywhere |
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Posted: 4/13/2024 7:34:18 AM EDT
[#47]
So, which one of the usual suspects in GD is missing?
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Posted: 4/13/2024 7:53:55 AM EDT
[#48]
No pic of yoga gf?
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Posted: 4/13/2024 7:56:14 AM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By swede1986: So, which one of the usual suspects in GD is missing?  Attached File |
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Posted: 4/13/2024 9:04:35 AM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Karankawa: I didn’t know any left wingers like Putin. They love him. There was a few protests last year with various communist groups wanting “peace” with Putin and the cessation of aid. |
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