With his feet planted firmly in the Donbas, and believing strongly that Russia and the DPR will reign supreme, Bentley stated he has no reason to return to the country of his birth.
"If I return to the U.S., it'll be on a Russian tank to liberate the U.S., just like what we're doing here. If I go back to the U.S. unarmed, I'll spend the rest of my life in prison for some bogus bullshit charge," Bentley said.
"But I don't need to go back to the U.S. I have a DPR passport. I'm a citizen of the Donetsk People's Republic. I'm also a Russian citizen. I have a small house with a big garden, a beautiful, brilliant wife, who's smart and tough and cool. [She] speaks three languages and is more educated than 90 percent of the people in the United States.
"There is no place I would rather live than here."