On one hand I understand what he's saying...why should a man stay loyal to country that isn't loyal to him?
Vickers spend a good amount of his life in service to his country, only to be bitch smacked for what amounts to a paperwork error.
Where the contention comes into place, is especially for people like us, is we believe our country is more than just our govt...just picking up and leaving because some jackboot thugs want a raise really doesn't sit right with most of us.
Especially the idea of running off to Russia...fuck that...Russia is no friend of the US.
And even if you want to argue " well so what, the US betrayed Vickers, fuck em"....I'm sure all of vickers' friends and family are also not picking up and moving to Russia with him.
So he goes over there and trains special forces or whatever, those special forces train China, China trains Iran....and Iran trains terrorist groups who target Americans...Vickers has now been complicit, somewhere in the chain, of potentially endangering his own friends and family...nah fuck that.
Even if vickers' does leave the country, fuck Russia....go find a beach somewhere and spend your life someplace warm, sipping mai tais on a beach.
Dude can liquidate his MG collection and never have to work again...
You're assuming Vickers is going to be allowed to liquidate anything and that the government isn't just going to do civil asset forfeiture and seize his entire gun collection, or that they haven't already seized his entire collection during the pendency of this case.
You're also assuming Vickers is going to pocket the money from liquidating his gun collection and won't be required to pay fines, forfeiture penalties, and colossal legal fees.
This case is probably going to wreck and break Vickers financially. I predict Vickers will be reduced to abject poverty and will wind up succumbing to the cancer he is dealing with, in a number of years, having been thoroughly and comprehensively wrecked by the government.
Russia is no friend to the United States? Is the USA a friend to you?
The government in Washington DC isn't a friend to the USA or the American people.
At least the government in Moscow isn't helping drag queens groom American toddlers.
Designation of a group as "terrorist" is just a means by which a hegemonic power denounces resistance by groups with less formal/conventional power who have resorted to asymmetrical warfare. Hell, the UK has classified Wagner Group as a "terrorist" organization. The USA has classified the Iranian Revolutionary Guards as a "terrorist" organization. This would be the equivalent of China classifying Blackwater as terrorists or Russia classifying the United States Marine Corps as terrorists.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard is a regular uniformed branch of the Iranian Armed Forces. Wagner Group is a semi-regulated private security contracting company in Russia which is basically run off the books by the Ministry of Defense.
Calling Iran a "terrorist" nation is just lamestream mainstream corporate media noise and nonsense. In the 1770s the men dressing up as Indians and trashing private property of British merchants in Boston harbor, as well as beating, tarring and feathering tax collectors, and threatening to kill British royal officials if they didn't leave various areas, would today be called "terrorists" by the governments in Washington DC and London.
In the modern western world a "terrorist" is, broadly speaking, anybody in a developing nation who resists American/Western exploitation/theft of their natural resources or who resists American/Western cultural imperialism.
If you're an Iraqi and don't want a battalion of Americans storming into your city to disarm you and force your family to adopt American ways, and you decide to fight, you're a terrorist. If you're in a village in Afghanistan and don't want soldiers and Marines from the US disarming you and overseeing the legalization of abortion so your daughter can be taken to a university in a city to become a liberated Western harlot with an Only Fans, and you resist, you're a terrorist. The Pashtun have managed to make it this far without caring what Westerners call them, and men in villages in Afghanistan will still be siring children and having families long after it becomes functionally impossible for Western men to find a marriageable bride in a society ruined by hookup culture where tens of millions of women are now doing online stripping and cam-girl Only Fans whore work.
Any thinking man with integrity would resort to armed resistance if foreigners came into his country to disarm him, throw down his cultural traditions, and take his women out from under his headship. If Western men had half the balls of the Pashtun men, Only Fans wouldn't exist, the average child wouldn't be raised in a single mother household, 65 million abortions wouldn't have taken place in the West since the 1970s, and 35% of Western women wouldn't be permanently barren due to STDs, because the people imposing such cultural rot would have been resisted and crushed.
