{"id":13900,"date":"2024-06-10T17:25:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T17:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13900"},"modified":"2024-06-10T17:25:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T17:25:30","slug":"western-fighters-in-ukraine-are-getting-killed-because-they-assumed-the-war-would-be-easy-says-a-us-veteran-who-fought-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13900","title":{"rendered":"Western fighters in Ukraine are getting killed because they assumed the war would be easy, says a US veteran who fought there"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;He explained that it was harder to find places to stay safe in Ukraine, where more&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ukraine-soldiers-attack-trenches-drone-first-protection-russia-boobytrap-trainer-2024-3?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=yahoo.com\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">drones are being used than in any conflict in history,<\/a>&nbsp;and artillery and long-range weapons are in constant use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that &#8220;even if you&#8217;re fucking miles and miles behind the fucking front lines, you can still get hit by a fucking rocket out there.&#8221; He said it&#8217;s not like conflicts in Middle East, where if you&#8217;re on a base you&#8217;re &#8220;relatively safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That same comparison has been made by other US veterans in Ukraine, who described the fight in Ukraine as more intense.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/western-fighters-ukraine-getting-killed-124438549.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/western-fighters-ukraine-getting-killed-124438549.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;He explained that it was harder to find places to stay safe in Ukraine, where more drones are being used than in any conflict in history, and artillery and long-range weapons are in constant use.<br \/>\nHe said that &#8220;even if you&#8217;re fucking miles and miles behind the fucking front lines, you can still get hit by a fucking rocket out there.&#8221; He said it&#8217;s not like conflicts in Middle East, where if you&#8217;re on a base you&#8217;re &#8220;relatively safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That same comparison has been made by other US veterans in Ukraine, who described the fight in Ukraine as more intense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/western-fighters-ukraine-getting-killed-124438549.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,53,924,728,1545,315,267,311,158],"class_list":["post-13900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-deaths","tag-eastern-europe","tag-europe","tag-invasion","tag-russia","tag-soldiers","tag-ukraine","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13901,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13900\/revisions\/13901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}