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The video seems a little dated to me, some leaves on the trees makes me wonder if this wasn’t from late fall? Plus the soldier’s clothing seems not to be of winter/Arctic issue.

I choose to share this video because it is the first I’ve seen that shows a complete Ukrainian unit made up of all American soldiers in combat. I can’t help but feel ironic that we have our brave young men dying to protect their border while ours let in 2-3 million illegals last year.

I wonder about the soldiers. Are they true civilian volunteers or active military allowed to resign and go to Ukraine? How many are there? How many of our young men have already died?

And finally it’s hard to read the captions as Tribun Timur always seems to paste their logo right over the transcripts box.

1 posted on 02/04/2023 5:20:59 AM PST by Phoenix8
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“I wonder about the soldiers. Are they true civilian volunteers or active military allowed to resign and go to Ukraine? How many are there? How many of our young men have already died?”

I was told by some people I know that Western militaries have programs that allow for ‘temporary retirement’ of servicemen to engage in active situations, so as to give the US Government deniability...so yes, you’re instinct is correct.


2 posted on 02/04/2023 5:38:32 AM PST by BobL
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I wonder about the soldiers. Are they true civilian volunteers or active military allowed to resign and go to Ukraine? How many are there? How many of our young men have already died?

Yes, early in the war there were several volunteers from other countries, including the U.S., who flew into Poland and walked across the border into Ukraine to volunteer.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/russia-claims-missile-strike-in-western-ukraine-killed-180-foreign-mercenaries/

3 posted on 02/04/2023 5:41:25 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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American mercenaries would be more heroic and better paid if they worked for the human and drug smuggling cartels.


4 posted on 02/04/2023 5:41:48 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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The BMP-3 is a Soviet and Russian infantry fighting vehicle, successor to the BMP-1 and BMP-2. The abbreviation BMP stands for boevaya mashina pehoty (боевая машина пехоты, literally "infantry combat vehicle")

I was wondering what BMP stood for, this was what I found. So, I assume BMP must be infantry combat unit, when presented as Russian BMP.

5 posted on 02/04/2023 5:44:53 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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I’ve seen this video before with a different description.

What kind of source is this one?


7 posted on 02/04/2023 5:53:00 AM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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' I can’t help but feel ironic that we have our brave young men dying to protect their border while ours let in 2-3 million illegals last year. '

That's been happening for decades. Protect the world, while the invasion continues. You have to guard Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, etc.

8 posted on 02/04/2023 5:53:17 AM PST by Theoria
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Here is a different description of that video.

“American and Canadian volunteers storm the building in which the Russian special forces were hiding. Later, a Ukrainian tank drove up and finished the job.

The right tank arrived but first Russian artillery struck the building and 2 Ukrainian volunteers were killed and many injured. infinite respect for the dead.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQeyk1BQ7LE


11 posted on 02/04/2023 6:08:09 AM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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"I choose to share this video because it is the first I’ve seen that shows a complete Ukrainian unit made up of all American soldiers in combat. I can’t help but feel ironic that we have our brave young men dying to protect their border while ours let in 2-3 million illegals last year."

Russia strong. Amerika evil deep state warmonger attacking Russia. Me US Amerikkan full MAGA patriot US verteran tell you so !


16 posted on 02/04/2023 6:52:10 AM PST by Grzegorz 246
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“The Americans took a loss and offered to negotiate, when one of the Russian soldiers came out the American appeared to open fire and kill him. “

I believe offering to negotiate and then opening fire is the Ukrainian’s strategy to tamp down Russian willingness to negotiate. Russia has been willing to negotiate throughout this conflict and the Ukrainians aren’t, and it provides bad optics exposing their desire for war.

Zelensky is just a puppet for NATO and they want regime change in Russia, they’ve said so. Negotiating with the Ukraine won’t get them what they’ve been fighting for, regime change.

So violating offers of negotiations is likely intended (aside from the obvious) to make Russians less willing to negotiate on the battlefield or in the international community. The Minsk II agreements were violated and Merkel said they were only made to buy time to build up the Ukraine for the fight with Russia.


21 posted on 02/04/2023 8:24:19 AM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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