• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Having met an ex-SAS guy a long time ago who was proud to have worked after as “private security” abroad in various African countries during civil wars…

    I assume they’re all like this

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        3 hours ago

        Given the article we’re at an absolute minimum size of 3, and there’s probably more than two doing this

        Any evidence to the contrary?

        The SAS have been involved in some pretty shitty things over the decades, I find it wholly unsurprising that more than just the guy I met become morality-devoid mercenaries after the job.

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          Any evidence to the contrary?

          1. The onus to prove something is on you. 2. All the ones not doing it? I’m sure there are way more than 3 SAS vets in the world.

          You have a sample size of 3, and 2 of them you only know because they are doing something worthy of being on the news. I’m also not surprised the number of them like this is more than 0, but that doesn’t mean most or even a significant number of them - much less “all” which is what you said. A lot of vets are also very patriotic, and Russia has assassinated people in the UK and are enemies. So it also wouldn’t surprise me if quite a few of them joined the Ukrainian side when they were taking volunteers - a lot of vets did.