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Just to highlight, she left a two year old, a seven year old, and a ten year old in one of the highest cost of living countries in order to go play soldier in a country she has never been to and has no connections to that cannot possibly pay her more than canadian minimum wage.
There's no justifiable reason, russia isn't going to invade canada next, ukraine doesn't pay their mercenaries particularly well, her kids aren't grown and her family isn't well off enough to not have either a homemaker or second income. Everyone involved's life is worse for this, except her's... She thinks she found a new family and is happy.
No shit. She sounds like an awful person.
Honestly, I agree. My first thought was that this woman’s having a mental breakdown. And I don’t buy it’s “for her kids”. What was threatening her kids? Are her kids going to see it that way in 20 years?
Usually I’m live and let live but something about this strikes me as… extreme and not a realistic expectation of people across the world without a cohesive plan.