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His father, Navy veteran Larry Gloss, confirmed the tragic loss to The Post, revealing Michael’s long battle with mental illness. “One of the manifestations of his mental illness was grandiosity. He always cared about the environment. He always wanted to take care of those disadvantaged, less able,” Larry Gloss shared.
Larry explained that Michael became convinced he could best achieve his dream of “water purification” by gaining Russian citizenship through military service. “In Michael’s thinking, which I now conclude largely as a function of some text exchange he’s had with comrades before his demise, he thought the best way of realizing his dreams of water purification would be as a citizen of Russia.”
But the story of how a young American went from Eagle Scout to Russian mercenary exposes a deeper, more sinister trend.
Michael’s radicalization began at the far-left College of the Atlantic in Maine, a “green” institution where activism outweighs academics. There, he immersed himself in climate protests, radical abortion activism, and was even arrested for his disruptive stunts.
Fueling his downward spiral, Michael began openly expressing hatred for America, burning the American flag, and denouncing U.S. values on social media.
His ideological journey continued overseas. Gloss wandered across Europe and the Middle East, mingling with extremist fringe groups like the Rainbow Family and absorbing anti-American and anti-capitalist dogma.
In messages obtained by iStories, Gloss revealed his mindset, writing:
“You can’t not witness war. There are too many types of violence that war has spread to now. Financial violence, institutional, emotional, and of course physical.”
Gloss’s worldview grew darker:
“The racist people in America don’t want to invade turkey with an army and navy.. they want to bleed the economy and enslave the Turkish people (really they want to enslave everyone wit darker skin) into wage slavery to be working poor.”
After a failed stint in Turkey’s disaster zones, Gloss crossed into Russia via Georgia. Drifting from city to city — living hand-to-mouth and even resorting to theft — he eventually signed up at a Moscow military enlistment office under the alias “Hamza Ali.”
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Despite limited Russian skills and fragile health, Michael completed basic training and joined the elite 137th Guards Airborne Regiment, clinging to the delusion that his service would fulfill some grand “ecological mission.”
In a final voice message, Gloss seemed almost euphoric:
“Hey fam, I’m in Russia. Yeah, I’m working here. I’m trying to get a passport and money, you know, so I can travel across Africa because I also like the warm weather. It’s like negative 10 here. It’s crazy. There’s so much snow. It’s, like, as tall as I am. But yeah, things are good. Despite the cold and the fact that I don’t see the sun for like a month. but it’s fun. I have lots of friends that I’m learning Russian things are good.”
Tragically, his fantasies ended in brutal reality. On April 4, 2024, Michael Gloss was killed during combat operations near Rozdolivka and Vesele in Ukraine.
His story serves as a chilling warning: when young Americans are fed anti-American hatred instead of patriotism, and when our highest institutions are staffed by leaders who have lost control of their own homes, the consequences are not just tragic — they are catastrophic.
