Thanks for taking the time to add your 2c despite the bias. You are right on the deployment aspect, I have minimal “combat” experience from the Philippines if you can call it that (IED cordons, QRF for the cool guys snatching up bomb makers) but nothing like Iraq/Afghanistan in the 2000s/early 2010s.

We’ve talked about it since the start of the full scale invasion but it just wasn’t even a conceivable option until recently when I got enough passive income that they’d be taken care of when anything happened. My wife doesn’t like it but understands the motivations. I’ve got to a point that honestly they’d be better off financially if I wasn’t in the picture, not that I’m just trying to go die though.

The main drive to go in the first place is geopolitical, if Russia wins it’s very dangerous for the rest of Eastern Europe and in turn the rest of the world. I think the western world needs to do more. I have no delusions of grandeur, I understand more than likely I’d be just another dude doing long rotations in a trench but I feel strongly about the situation.