gee wonder what the Ukrainian guy holding the apartheid rifle has on his arms that needs to be blurred.
Identifying features? Which neatly explains why his face is also blurred?
no tattoos 
But I'm sure the guy with a Punisher skull hat has very liberal and progressive views and politics
found the unedited pic here: https://medium.com/@seanlorenz2012/now-you-understand-a-himars-officer-between-war-family-and-freedom-eca39ebfbd6b
some great bits of brainworms:

Wow I wonder why he was arrested for being in a literal Nazi collaborator organisation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_of_Ukrainian_Nationalists#During_World_War_II
After Germany's invasion of the USSR, on 30 June 1941, OUN seized about 213 villages and organized diversion in the rear of the Red Army. In the process, it lost 2,100 soldiers and 900 were wounded.

I made no comment whatsoever on anyone's politics, merely supplying the answer to the question.
Judging by your reaction to the individual's identity, I suppose I was correct in my reasoning, obscuring their identity, as bad an attempt as it was.
I agree with you that the blurring was to obscure his identity,
Judging by your reaction to the individual's identity
'Stop being mean to the fashies
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Be "mean" all you want. Our armchair comments won't make a difference to the outcome.
Where did I imply it would?
i think that's the biggest suppressor i've ever seen
the M110 sniper rifles had some pretty chonky suppressors back in the day too

there's also some ridiculously massive suppressors for anti-materiel rifles, but those are a whole other category of caliber so it makes sense they'd be 

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