Michael Gloss studied Human Ecology at Middlebury College in Vermont and was described by friends as an eco-activist, women’s rights supporter, and anti-fascist.

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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  • @[email protected]English
    133•23 days 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.

    • @[email protected]English
      19•23 days ago

      NATO was an evolution of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party.

      Is that really so far off though?

      • @[email protected]English
        134•23 days 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.

        • @[email protected]English
          11•23 days 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.

          • @[email protected]English
            18•23 days 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.

            • @[email protected]English
              9•23 days 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.

          • @[email protected]English
            42•23 days 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.

            • @[email protected]English
              7•23 days 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.

              • DoomEnglish
                35•22 days 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.

                • @[email protected]English
                  7•22 days 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.

            • @[email protected]English
              4•22 days 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?

      • @[email protected]English
        65•23 days 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.

    • @[email protected]English
      48•22 days 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.