• TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 days ago

    where does it say he complains about language and won’t learn it? he’s been there for like a few months, learning a language takes time (especially if you’re dumb as this guy)

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      14 days ago

      He would expect people to learn English before arriving in the US so the inverse should also be true. And yeah learning Russian is hard, but that’s his problem. It’s not like he had to leave in an emergency, the threat that he was experiencing is entirely fictional.

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      14 days ago

      Huffman has no prior military experience, DeAnna said, adding that his limited training was conducted in Russian. She suggested the language barrier has made her husband particularly unprepared for the horrors of combat.

      Ok, he didn’t, his wife did. This was an important part of the article for me, the oh gosh training for Russian military is in Russian.