Defect
Defect verb - Desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army.
Flee
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Both words in one sentence
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Non-white troops are killed on sight, even after the NAT allows the white troops to surrender, defect or flee.
Source: Literature / Northwest Front -
Your objective is either to survive, capture the enemy base, infiltrate it or flee with your fellow defectors from your former allies' vast armies if you decide to defect to the Alliance.
Source: Video Game / Original War - Sometimes this can be justified, for example the bribing party may not have much hard foreign money to hand or the bribed party may have intended to flee the country and defect, but often it is not.
Source: Foreign Money Is Proof of Guilt
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