is he still alive?

What causes westerners to sign up as cannon fodder for the most 3rd world country in Europe? Is it a lifetime spent playing first person shooters? Did they think they were gonna get a wife and sex? Was it for some Reddot updoots? Or is it just the classic American "muh-Russia" boogeyman propaganda, the same they used on our parents and their parents?

ukraine is currently doing just that and winning.