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The reality is you will be used as cannon fodder, says UK teen who went to Ukraine war
Channel 4 News ^ | May 31 | Cathy Newman

Posted on 05/31/2022 12:05:12 PM PDT by RandFan

He was just an 18-year-old student when Russia invaded Ukraine, and within weeks had crossed the border to volunteer.

Ben Atkin is the youngest known Briton to travel to Ukraine to join the war.

Tonight, he tells this programme about his experiences. The Foreign Office says they don’t know exactly how many UK nationals have gone to Ukraine – or how many have lost their lives.

But an investigation for this programme has heard accounts of chaos in Ukraine’s foreign legion – with claims of poor organisation and a lack of training and kit – and unverified claims that more than 20 British volunteers have been killed.

This exclusive report is the first part of our series on Brits on the frontline.

(Excerpt) Read more at channel4.com ...


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KEYWORDS: agitprop; hateamericafirst; putinlovertrollsonfr; zottherussiantrolls
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Why go there?!!

I know we tell neocons to sign up to the Ukrainian foreign legion and fight themselves but here's an actual account from someone who did!

1 posted on 05/31/2022 12:05:12 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

“OK…..You foreigners move out and draw fire.”


2 posted on 05/31/2022 12:11:03 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: RandFan

“Why go there?”

They would have been bullied and called Putin Puffers if they didn’t.


3 posted on 05/31/2022 12:13:16 PM PDT by Born in 1950 (Anti left, nothing else.)
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https://t.me/s/voenkorKotenok/36877

Senior US officers in the war with Russia in Ukraine
Soldiers of the 4th Security Force Assistance Brigade of the US Department of Defense (4 Security Force Assistance Brigade, SFAB) have been transferred to the territory of Ukraine.

This connection is in 2020. The tasks are education, training, consulting, assistance to “US partners” around the world. SFAB officers are preparing Odessa, Nikolaev, Zaporozhye, Dnipro for defense following the example of Mariupol, using the population as a shield, placing weapons and equipment under the cover of schools, kindergartens, hospitals. They organize channels for the supply of Western weapons and training in their use.

Directly in the organization and participation in hostilities in urban areas are SFAB officers:
- Lieutenant Colonel Sean Robert Shields;
- Lieutenant Colonel Michael Patrick Tumlin;
- Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Stephen Sylvain.


4 posted on 05/31/2022 12:18:16 PM PDT by Cathi
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To: Born in 1950

Someone here once called us Putineers. I guess they don’t realize that it is the puppeteer who controls the puppets, which then makes us people who control Putin. That exemplifies just how ignorant these cheerleaders really are. 🙂


5 posted on 05/31/2022 12:19:28 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: RandFan

Ukraine sends willing foreign volunteers into the field to fight for them. Why would anyone expect it be any other way?


6 posted on 05/31/2022 12:20:18 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: blueunicorn6

What the heck to they expect? They haven’t trained with nor can they be integrated into fire teams on such short notice.

It was the same with foreigners who went to fight for the Communists in Spain in 1936. Hemingway was damned lucky to be made an ambulance driver.


7 posted on 05/31/2022 12:23:27 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan (qd4)
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To: RandFan

If you’re dumb enough to believe globalist media outlets, then you’re useful enough to collect bullets on their behalf.


8 posted on 05/31/2022 12:24:50 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: RandFan

Didn’t take very long for him to learn that war isn’t like the movies or a video game.... No reset button or start over and try again.....


9 posted on 05/31/2022 12:26:16 PM PDT by piroque ("When the SHTF I'm gonna hunker down until all those idiots kill each other. " )
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Oh well at least they die thinking they made some sort of convoluted difference defending the corrupt laundromat 🤪


10 posted on 05/31/2022 12:28:20 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

And Orwell was lucky to have gotten out with his life, he was fighting with the Anarchists and was almost erased in a purge by his “allies”, the Republicans (Communists). Homage to Catalonia was his book about this time. It is a short, quick, worthwhile read that provides some/much of the basis for 1984 and Animal Farm.


11 posted on 05/31/2022 12:29:30 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: RandFan

utter fools who volunteer to die for neocon globalist elites’ wet-dreams.

Its not your country, not your people, not your culture. What minimal understanding these dupes have of the situation is the mind-altering psychedelic of western media propaganda being spoon-fed to them.


12 posted on 05/31/2022 12:33:03 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: RandFan; wardaddy; NorseViking; McGruff; BobL
The 27th, (or 32nd, or 59th, or 73rd, depending on who you believe) historical border revision in The Borderland aka The Ukraine is absolutely worth pushing right up to Nuclear WW3 to enforce!

Let the bombs fly! Nuke the planet!

The 1922/1954/1991 “The Ukraine” borders are 100% worth destroying the entire planet over!


13 posted on 05/31/2022 12:36:36 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: RandFan

The Brain Washing device (otherwise known as the TV/MSM) told him to go. It didn’t turn out like he thought it would.


14 posted on 05/31/2022 12:36:54 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: RandFan

But the USA Uni-party have provided Ukraine with $43+ Billion, that should certainly win the USA proxy war against Russia, eh. Hahahaha!

Most imbeciles don’t even realize how much money that is and, to top that, they won’t admit how corrupt the Uni-party, Soros, CIA, Schwab and his WEF followers are. They continue their unabashed support for them in the WWIII catalyst war.


15 posted on 05/31/2022 12:39:49 PM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
What do you mean they didn't train? I'm sure most of these foreign volunteers had years training killing not only other humans, but space aliens, orcs, trolls, dragons, etc.

After working their way to the final level and dealing death to a 100 ft tall elephantaurus, killing a few Russkies should have been a breeze.

16 posted on 05/31/2022 12:43:38 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: Travis McGee

Travis, do you have the meme/graphic suggesting supporters of the war sign up to the foreign legion? That one is good as well...


17 posted on 05/31/2022 12:45:43 PM PDT by RandFan (For some reason I'm interested in politics, particularly the U.S. Senate)
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To: RandFan

It’s awful hard to cure stupid!


18 posted on 05/31/2022 12:53:33 PM PDT by icclearly
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To: RandFan

Does being a bullet catcher pay well?
This doesn’t surprise me at all...
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things just get worse for Z and his ukes.
.Russia recaptured a town with name that sounds like Turnover for the umpteenth time.. Russians on video casually walking around in Severo , going,going ....
ukes who crossed river at David Bird and then stopped at Brewsky may no longer exist - DPA estimated ukes lost 10-20 vehicles and 100-200 troops.
[ Ukraine SITREP ] Day 95-96 (29-30/5) Summary - Fighting in Kharkiv region, Severodonetsk abandoned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEMapDY20R8


19 posted on 05/31/2022 12:53:44 PM PDT by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: RandFan

Ukraine’s one of the most corrupt countries in the world... I’m not sure if everything is as it seems...


20 posted on 05/31/2022 12:58:13 PM PDT by GOPJ (...those shouting loudest about “threats to democracy” are the threat. - DANIEL GREENFIELD )
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