cross-posted from: https://biglemmowski.win/post/6224801

Michael Gloss, 21, was the son of CIA Deputy Director for Digital Innovation Julianne Gallina Gloss, and Iraq war veteran Larry Gloss.

Before arriving in Russia on August 13, 2023, Gloss was travelling around Europe. On his Vkontakte page bio, he wrote: “I ran away from home (and) traveled the world. I hate fascism.”

On April 4, 2024, he was killed, likely during a Russian offensive near Bakhmut, however, his burial in the U.S. did not take place until December 2024, Important Stories reports.

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  • Takapapatapaka@lemmy.worldEnglish
    109·
    1 day ago

    From the end of the article

    But despite supporting Ukraine at the beginning of the full-scale war, he was at a military recruitment center in Moscow, alongside other foreign nationals, on September 5, 2023, Russian border data shows.

    His social media posts show a distinct change in his views — one identified by Important Stories as belonging to Gloss suggest he believed in conspiracy theories involving Ukraine, and claimed NATO was an evolution of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
      22·
      10 hours ago

      Either extremely impressionable, or maybe had his account handed over after he was pulled off the street and conscripted into a ruzzian meat wave.

      Either way, tragic waste of human life, being anywhere near involvement with their military.

      • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
        1113·
        24 hours ago

        Is that really so far off though?

        Yes you fucking cretin

        Notice that the one US president who actually has been building concentration camps and operating the Gestapo, shares with you a strong dislike of NATO.

      • rusticus@lemm.eeEnglish
        584·
        22 hours ago

        If by evolution you mean “created to oppose” then yes. The question is what global organization will be created to fight against the evil of Trump and Putin.

        • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldEnglish
          878·
          22 hours ago

          Not really. NATO had many ex top Nazis at the helm directly after world war 2. The line between Nazi Germany and NATO is very straight.

          One of the most notable being top Nazi Adolf Heusinger https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Heusinger

          Where the other guy went wrong is thinking that anyone opposing NATO in this case Russia suddenly becomes objectively good.

            • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldEnglish
              311·
              8 hours ago

              Who vehemetly denied being involved in that plot, was cleared by the German secret service for not being involved and was praised by Hitler for his autobiography?

          • Takapapatapaka@lemmy.worldEnglish
            372·
            22 hours ago

            Well just because there are nazis dudes in an organization does not make it nazi itself. After the collapse of fascism, a lot of fascists kept or acquired important roles, there were nazi cunts in french administration, and i dont think it made the administration automatically nazi.

            Since NATO was not iniated by nazis, nor by Germany, and has no nazi goals, i’m not sure if we can say that the line between Nazi Germany is very straight. It exists sure, but it’s probably not straight and certainly quite thin.

            • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldEnglish
              539·
              20 hours ago

              When the top of the organisation is a Nazi it sounds pretty Nazi to me.

              Combined with the NATO genocides in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea, Palestine and more, it is obvious NATO is led by “Ubermenschen.”

              But hey. The truth is very inconvenient.

              • Doom@ttrpg.networkEnglish
                292·
                16 hours ago

                The truth is complicated not inconvenient. Is NASA a Nazi organization? Are we not going to use rockets because it is Nazi tech?

                What about NATO today is Nazi. What was Nazi about NATO then?

                You’re being obtuse and intentionally a fool. Knock it off.

                • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  513·
                  8 hours ago

                  NASA hiring a ton of Nazis is not the win you think it is. Yes the West did not abolish Nazism. Churchill was a massive anti semite and white surpremacist. They mostly fought the Nazis because Hitler was about to steal their power. Not because of conflicting ideals.

                  • Doom@ttrpg.networkEnglish
                    6·
                    2 hours ago

                    The hell does Churchill have to do with any of this?

                    You couldn’t answer my question, nothing Nazi going on.

                    You’re talking about people and events from almost a century ago. Of course they’re racist you bozo. But does that make NASA or NATO Nazi? No.

                    Go sit in the dumb corner now.

          • crimsonpoodle@pawb.socialEnglish
            171·
            22 hours ago

            I mean look nazis are bad but if we look at De-Ba’athification in Iraq things didn’t turn out so well.

            As far as I can tell is Heusinger guy was a career military officer, for the Imperial German army, the Weimer rupublic, Nazi Germany, and Post war Germany. So sure we can he should have defected from the Nazis but he wasn’t exactly a brown shirt either.

            • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldEnglish
              723·
              20 hours ago

              Heusinger was a top ranking Nazi which served in the atrocities and genocide against the Soviet Union.

              Calling this a “career military officer” is extreme Nazi glorification.

              • catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                2·
                22 minutes ago

                The only one glorifying Nazis here is you. Take your Ruzzian paycheck and go home. Or is it that you’re paid by the post? Seems likely since you’ve not said anything different from:

                “One time a Nazi existed which means that NATO and everything I’m paid not to like is currently a Nazi organization”.

                When asked to explain that absolutely insane mental leap you just continue to say the same thing in different ways over and over. You are not a serious person.

                Explain how NATO, NASA and everything else in the world that a single Nazi at one time a hundred years ago had something to do with, is currently bad and fascist, or crawl back into your hole.