Unemployed losers will do anything for attention

Killing Tate in combat can be a bad idea, it could easily make him a martyr, a powerful symbol for other cowards to rally behind.

However, if the last pictures of Tate were somehow really embarrassing to him and his followers…

What happened to Charlie Kirk?

Him being a martyr would be less of an issue than him being an living promoter of his worldview.

This hand wringing about awful people becoming martyrs is frustrating to read. How many horrible people have become actual martyrs who inspire people to be worse than the followers they had while living? Actually martyrs tend to die doing things that benefit people.

Nah, he will be forgotten quickly just like that Kirk fellow. Who only remains as a meme.

Running scared across a minefield, leg gets blown off and dies slowly?

i heard that, at least couple years back, rich people, well-positioned people, some influencers etc who nevertheless got drafted sometimes get an option to be a drone pilot in bars-kaskad unit. drone pilots are some of high priority targets, and now ukrainian drones reach like, 50km behind the frontline. in general drones can fly thousands of kilometers to worthy target, and targeting tate would be very funny. on the other hand, i'm not sure how would trump or other republicans react to that, he already got him out of romanian prison

If russia plays it smart. They would not send Tate anywhere near actual combat or standard military. Just some PR stunts with him and trying to make him look "badass".

If russia doesn't play it smart then considering it's russian military and Tate is western. He would get hazed to or near death or maybe executed by some military official.

If Tate would even survive. Ukrainian troops would find him in fetal position and crying in a ditch

However, if the last pictures of Tate were somehow really embarrassing to him and his followers…

now that you say that, russians must have some crazy strong kompromat on him

What hair? 🤣

It gets beyond threats and sometimes happens regardless. There are ton of videos of "500's" tortures (code for those refusing to fight).

Foreign defector scumbags with an online following obviously don't get the regular fresh-out-of-supermax training regime!

Essentially, as soon as you have signed a contract to join a nation's armed forced as a combatant, you are one and can be fought as such. Generally speaking you can be engaged in all contexts unless you are actively doing three things: surrendering, bailing out of a plane using a parachute as an emergency(not dropping as part of a paratrooper assault) or if you are in the process of being rescued from a shipwreck.

That's why they joined.

Exactly, he fits right in