Posted on 03/17/2022 12:48:58 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
Foreign nationals traveling to aid Ukraine’s war effort are reportedly being duped into signing indefinite service contracts. The Ukrainian Army has denied such allegations while failing to provide evidence of military contracts stating otherwise.
As the nation’s war with Russia broke out, the International Legion for the Defence of Ukraine was formed, with people from around the globe welcomed – and encouraged – to join the fight. At the beginning of March, Ukrainian President Zelensky announced to his Telegram channel that 16,000 foreigners (the number is now estimated to be 20,000) had volunteered.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenationalpulse.com ...
“Forward Observations Group” was almost entirely killed off in Donbas. They might be a sort of mall ninjas but claimed to be an association of US SF veterans.
It is stories like that one, which may or may not be true, are most easily seen a propaganda, lending the stench to may other factual stories which are well documented.
True. I read from the link in the first post.
An American volunteer complains that they're low on ammunition, that they've suffered many casualties, and that they can't just quit and go home if they change their mind.
Sounds almost as if they joined some military outfit during wartime. Oh wait ...
This. Anyone going over there has to know there is a good chance they will never come back. If they haven’t thought that through, they shouldn’t go.
They're all free to leave at least as far as the Russians are concerned.
https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/russia-ukraine-crisis/russia-opens-evacuation-corridors-for-civilians-in-ukraine-after-emmanuel-macrons-request-articleshow.html
Jao Bai-din and the Democrats have guaranteed an open U.S. southern border so it's not like the Ukrainians have nowhere to go.
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Great post #14. And I’m betting that if you get a response at all, it will be limited to see form of name-calling.
Agree.
I think most of these morons are from Reddit thinking they’re “skilled” playing FPS computer games.
This story is super duper really odd.
Because the volunteer fighters from the U.S., Canada, and U.K. seem NOT to mention any of this as they’ve been reporting about what’s really going on there.
Yet the article doesn’t have a single eye witness.
Sounds one those Anti-Vax Boom, Bombshell, Whisle Blower B.S. piece.
You know, we’re magnetic, parasitical worms crawling through our arteries kind of Booms.
Leftists who think they will post "Here in Ukraine to fight Putin!" to instagram with a picture of them with a rifle will be top notch virtue signaling and will then log out and come on home.
Southfront's article is ok I guess. A bit triumphant for my taste.
There is some detail as to how exposed and unsupported these guys are.
Definitely check out the last video in the article. It's in english - a young man describing his harrowing experiences fighting for the Ukraine.
An impressive young man, I hope he does well.
Thank you! Mall ninja brigade for sure.
Sorry, people should be able to leave. You are a sick puppy.
Welcome to the hotel Ukraine,
You can check out,
but you can never leave.
I think they decided the cause isn’t worth their life. They were idiots, but they should be allowed to leave.
National Pulse is choosing to self immolate itself in support of Putinist Russia. Sad, they were a decent publication and will be missed.
sick of all the NAZI crap, are they calling them followers of Hitler? or National Socialism...
i think what they are really implying is, “right wing” which the Nazis and fascists weren’t.
but it does smell of communism
Yes, you are probably correct.
But to hear him talk, he was being sent into Kiev with no plates and a 10-round mag. Any volunteer would baulk at being treated like that.
When he refused he had to flee the country.
Tell you what, Ukrainean logistics must be shot to hell.
And unless they're veterans of the Korean War, the combat vets are learning for the first time what fighting a modern conventional army looks like.
Guys who have been in Iraq and Afghanistan haven't seen anything like this.
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