Is this phony? And then the guy joins the Russian army and is sent to the front that fast...come on, this has to be some made up shit.

that he's on his way to the front. That meat grinder needs meat.

something is fishy/sounds like BS.

but neither did the North Koreans, they hit the front lines within a couple of weeks too.

IMO it's phony bullshit that ordinary magats from AZ and TEX who don't speak Russian just pick up and move to Russia.

I may have been born at night, but no last night.

all because they wanted to get away from LGBTQ and woke society. Nobody has ever claimed them to be the brightest of the bunch. They sold their farm in Sask and moved there and found out they could not even access their funds from the sale because of sanctions. I think eventually they got access to their money but did not speak a lick of Russian.

Tired of being embarrassed and horrified by my country.

just to get away from the demands that you tolerate and avoid... if you can't be nice... to people with different values than you.

Mom and Pop attitude in the pic almost seems like they are trying to convey "Hah! We own you now, libs!"

Not sure about others but my response:

I still say something smells.

have moved to the US. And Canada. And Europe.

These folks really see themselves as refugees. They really think they, as white folks in countries where they cant consistently control government to their full, uncontested liking, are therefore oppressed, and the really dumb ones are willing to flee to fairly random places to try to get out from under their perceived burdens.

From what Ive heard, many Russians do speak English, at least enough its possible to get around the country. Meanwhile, for Russia, its a PR get, so they were most likely happy to play along until it wasn't useful anymore.

Now.. if it were dozens, hundreds of folks doing it, id have some questions. But one (clearly unserious, deluded, and not very bright) family to do something that is clearly deluded, not very bright, and unserious.. is not terribly hard to believe.

with neighboring countries...and they're not in much danger of falling out upper story windows.

Something is fishy.

I personally know people who have moved for all sorts of reasons. Because they thought one state or country was "more godly" than another. Because they wanted to go somewhere warm. Because they wanted to go somewhere that was "safe from global warming" Etc..

Im sorry, but its not fishy, its pretty shallow and obvious. Stupid wannabe influencers did something stupid.

Lucky you. I do.

Arguably, nearly a third of the nation who just voted to turn the US into a dictatorship.

You would assume they'd train them in their own languages. I'm assuming N. Koreans brought their own trainer/interpreters.

quite a long time, years even, to be able to operate in a strange land. Arizonans/Texans bordering the Mexican border would be familiar with many Mexican words, but the Russian language and alphabet are entirely different to Americans.

IMO this is some phony crapola...maybe some are gullible enough to fall for it. And I guess they've been living under rocks here in America, so he joins the Russian army, I guess not knowing of the Ukraine War Putin is sending everyone who can walk to.

Come on. Made up BS.

"And, oh yeah! He doesn't have any money and he hasn't been paid and I can't send him money because we haven't been paid...."

Gee, I wonder if she wants people to send her money.

What's she doing anyway? Just wandering around Russia with her "traditional value" cell phone.

There's no requirement that recruits speak French.

Someone I know, who tried to join the FFL many years ago, told me about a fellow recruit from Mongolia. Not only did he not speak French, no one in the FFL spoke Mongolian. They managed to work something out, but I don't really remember what that was.

The simplest approach, but least likely, would be to issue orders in English(!), since it's understood as a second language by enormous numbers of people. French would be another obvious choice, especially for "recruits" from African countries. Impressed soldiers don't get the luxury of orders in their native language, a rule that goes back to antiquity. Ask the Romans, the Turks, the Mongols, the Cossacks, or anybody -- oh, heck even the Russians, who have been at it for centuries.

If you want to issue orders in Russian -- which I suspect is exactly what they do -- there's a *very* short list of one-to-three word phrases that would cover it. Like sailing a ship, which was often done by multilingual crews, and still is today.

Be careful what you wish for.

Any word on the Canadian farming family that moved there in the last couple of years?

They have their land, everything's cheap, the university is teaching them Russian, they already know how to farm in the far north.
They're getting the compassionate, multicultural treatment they rail against when it's other immigrants. They're good until the kids hit draft age.

You have to learn the Cyrillic alphabet first.

Incredible self-own.

And her husband now enjoys the privileges and joys of being a tiny cog fighting for Putin's portfolio in that wonderful machine they now call home.

With MAGA/Trump written on it.

Even then I don’t think this guy would think anything of it.

Wasn't there something about russia doing some kind of ad or pr thing in the u.s. trying to appeal to others like this woman and her family?

The “traditional values” he was reading about on some RT or similar blog vanished in a puff of smoke, and were replaced by the traditional values of not-so-ex-KGB agent Putin.

He freed himself of western propaganda, and subjugated himself to Soviet-style propaganda. It may not have been what he thought he came for, but he did get what he came for.

I wish that more Americans would self-sort themselves and go to authoritarian places like North Korea and Russia.

Then we could resume welcoming people who want to live in messy democracies.

The Germans have a good expression: “die Revolution frisst ihre Kinder auf.” The revolution devours its children.

Although it didn’t really apply to the thirteen colonies, it certainly happened in France, Russia, Iran, and other countries over the centuries.

The one aspect that took me longest to accept was that so many people WANT to live under an authoritarian regime. It ran SO contrary to my own personal nature, that I couldn’t get inside the heads of people who preferred it. I couldn’t grasp that some people liked living in Franco’s Spain. I couldn’t grasp that some people liked living in East Germany. What I perceived as freedom, they perceived as insecurity, and what I perceived as repression, they perceived as security, and they were willing to make the trade. In a way, it’s still what we’re up against. There is a reason so many churches are so full of people that don’t really believe what they hear. As long as it is what they want to hear, they don’t need to believe it. Same with Fox “News.” They feel no need to believe everything Fox tells them. They just need to hear it often.

…of so many Americans not wanting “the gubmint” telling them what to do.

while they can be real men and don't have to worry about having to put on a dress or some shit.

I watched a bunch of Russia travel videos and the comments alwsys had racist Americans saying how great it looks becsuse they are all white and no gays send women look like women and other shit.

by finding a copy of Escape from Freedom in the school library. I can even remember finding it on the shelf, pulling it off the bookcase and scanning over the contents. Probably spent a day and a half reading it and I recall the feeling of "well that explains that." I bought a copy and still have it. I think I was around 12 or 13 when I discovered this.

For MAGAts, it's kinda' like Barbie saying "math is hard."

Here's a few paragraphs of a review:

does anyone remember the thread about China pulling ahead of us in the economic race? I think it was posted yesterday or the day before. I read it but didn't have time to comment, and when I did, I couldn't find the thread.

I recall thinking we in the U.S. should focus on something else, other than constant "capital." Note in particular this statement from the review I posted:

Fromm isn’t recommending anarchy, but that society’s goals shift to the cultivation of minds and individuals rather than capital.

Which the US currently sucks at and is getting worse with Smuk's total destruction of USAID and other tools of soft diplomacy.

All in pursuit of the golden calf of... Wait for it... Crypto.

They want a strong leader who will tell them exactly what to think and do.

That is Focksnooze (aka: Fox News) business model to a tee. They literally exist to tell a certain segment of our society what they want to hear. I can never wrap my head around how people can be like that. They can't seem to live without having their politics spoon-fed to them.

As for this family moving to Russia to experience more 'traditional values,' seems to me to be code for, 'they're mostly white.'

Please, self-deport. Move out. Don't try to change America into a totalitarian state. There are already existing totalitarian states that you can move to. Some of us prefer our messy democracy. Let us have it here.

"America. Love it or leave it."

Maybe it's time we picked that up for ourselves.

That was quick. Also interesting that he hasn’t received any pay, but he’s supposed to pay them $100 for supplies. Good luck with those traditional Russian values.

NT

But yea. he volunteered, he wasn't drafted.

I'll bet he rests easy knowing there isn't any "woke, Marxist ideology" in fox holes.

Operating largely on barter and corruption.

Just like the Republicans are crafting for us here in the USA with their BOHICA Law! MAGA!

The dude is getting exactly what he bargained for...

Guess I got them confused with the Canadian farming family.

Seems like one of his first tasks, when they started working on this back in 2023, would have been intensive work on learning to communicate in Russian. But anyone who thinks moving to Russia and enlisting in the military is a good life plan is already exhibiting poor thinking skills.

Then she will hurry back to the US to collect Social Security benefits for her children from the country she so distrusts. If Texas is too liberal for you, you have deep issues.

quickly becoming drone bait. I hope the kids get back home and away from whatever fucked up
religion they are forced to follow.

He could be seen as forfeiting his American citizenship by joining the Russian military and seeking Russian citizenship.

I doubt it gets him back to Dallas though.

Judge not lest ye be judged.
Even if you aren’t open-minded or accepting of gays, the fallback position for ‘Christians’ is supposed to be humility and kindness.

…forgotten/disregarded part of the teachings attributed to the Jesus the phony Christians claim to follow.

Matthew 6 and 7 are full of things Jesus said that that are ignored by MAGA.

6:5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.

6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.

7:3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

7:12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Why didn’t they just move to Utah?

His life. Her freedom. Their whole families future.

Sucks to be them!

Fled AZ, fled TX, fled US… this will not end well for this family. Those poor children’s lives will be forever wrecked.

. . . heartbroken I tell you.





/s

That way, the "patriotic MAGAT" can get right up close and personal to the action.

oops!

What stupid people

ETA

An American named Derek Huffman, along with his three daughters aged 10, 11, and 12, relocated his family to Russia and engaged in the Special Military Operation (SMO)

In 2022, they moved from Arizona to Texas to escape what they perceived as the influence of LGBT propaganda. However, as political changes swept across the country, the Huffmans decided to leave the United States altogether.

Derek shared with RT, "The pivotal moment for us was when we learned that my daughter Sophia had heard about lesbians from a classmate. Even though she didn’t fully grasp the concept, it was enough for us to realize that we needed a change. "

In May 2023, they began considering a move to Russia. A week-long visit to Moscow proved to be a turning point for their future:

"The city was cleaner, safer, and more organized than we had anticipated. Most importantly, we found a place where our values were honored, and we felt at home. "

Reality has a way of intruding. There’s an even greater risk of it intruding horribly if you live in Russia.

The children will definitely pay a high price … it is a tragic tale

At least they don't have to worry about anyone talking about LBGTQ + stuff

His daughter was confused about various sexual feelings? Ah...explain it to her...unless she's a vegetable.

I'm sure this American will be drone fodder in about a month. It's the damn liberals that killed them with all there crazy ideas about freedom and human rights.

Now they can drink it.

Complete with food shortages, work drudgery and cannon fodder for Putin's dreams of conquest to remake the USSR.

you have met the dumbest American possible, you then see a story like this and realize there is no bottom to these people.

just say, I don’t care, do you? 🙄🙄🙄

She's complaining that her husband's training is being done in Russian, which he doesn't understand. How much you want to bet she was at school board meetings demanding "English only" in schools? He didn't get the position he was told he'd get? Poor guy, but hey...he obviously has experience being lied to. No financially support? Only lazy people need a safety net, right?

I feel sorry for their daughters...their lives have been upended. Their father will in all likelihood go through Putin's meat grinder. I wish there was some way to let them come back, but make their mother stay there.
Democracy is messy and maddeningly slow. But it works.

While I know a few people did fall for the family values lie (Russia's divorce rate is 73%, DV is legal), as soon as they found out a few things like they couldn't buy their own little chunk of Siberia to farm and no, they couldn't bring their guns with them and whaddya mean $400/month isn't enough to live on, eat potatoes 3 times a day like everybody else....they very quietly moved back here.

They were brainwashed into believing that Russia is a great place for "traditional values". Their children will forever be impacted because:

Dad will not survive Ukraine. The probability that he will be snuffed out in a few months is very very high.
Mom will meet her demise from falling out of a high window due to her publicly shinning a light on how bad it is there
The kids - well - they will be in an orphanage or given to some Russian family and they will never see family in the USA again.

This is just one of the results of the far right insanity that we have experienced for years now.

I only weep for their children.

The sheer stupidity..........Good Lord...........

I'm sure that won't happen because they don't have "those" in Russia.

.... parents don't alway know what's going on with their kids. And some are more clueless than others.

I haven’t heard much since they moved. Will have to look up and see if same has happened to them.

Are they going to be drafted into the war?

“After just over a year in the Nizhniy Novgorod region, whose climate and topography are remarkably similar to that of Saskatchewan, the Feenstras have acquired a 280-acre homestead, built a house, gained three-year residency permits, and are gearing up to start raising livestock and growing crops this spring.“


https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/0311/russia-migrants-canada-west-melting-pot#:~:text=Arend%20(second%20from%20left)%20and,the%20Volga%20River%20in%20Russia.&text=A%20couple%20of%20years%20ago,their%20lives%20in%20northern%20Saskatchewan.

They have built their house and barn and have vegetable crops along with some corn for the cows, which at this point is just a few holstein calves. They also have a community of expats, I suspect are either Canadian or American, not many but a few. They are playing it like all is good but going from Canada, where the government helps people, to Russia where government kills people, at some point is going to sink in. My guess these people are like MAGA and will never admit a mistake.

Never, ever, under no circumstances, volunteer for anything you imbecile.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

They made choices, they are getting what they chose.

Weirdly, I have no sympathy for them. None.

Living the good life, eh?

Moral of the story: Don't move to Putin's Paradise.

That’s tragic.