He didn't get "caught up". He purposefully shilled for the invading army against the country he resided in. You have to be a special kind of stupid to do that. I didn't even mind his pro-Russian slant, but if I was a pro-Russian shill then I'd be smarter than go to live in Ukraine of all places and loudly proclaim my loyalties to the enemy that is invading the country.It's unfortunately a very cruel twist of irony that Gonzalo left U.S. to avoid a civil war and imprisonment, only to get caught up in the Ukraine-Russian war, imprisoned and killed.
Did he deserve to die? No. But it's hard to feel sympathy for someone so monumentally stupid.