This all-consuming love for the Motherland, to the point where one doesn't even want to join the army, reeks of that infamous квасной patriotism. The same kind that drunkards boast about in the courtyard, loudly cursing kitchen dissidents who drink port wine.
And the nickname – not Alexey, but Alex. A capitalist nickname, Western brainwashing. It's like when children, in their essays on free topics and in their made-up games in the sandbox, create the image of a superhero, calling him John or Ultraman, and not Vanya.
Well, if you're so smart, go ahead and join the army... the things those local thug-cadets – discharged soldiers and senior conscripts – do is simply awful, but then again, it's like everywhere now, because all sorts of incompetent fools thought not intelligently, but abstractly...
1. See post #108
2. I've always found such "expressions" amusing. Especially online. Yes, especially online.