SAS soldiers threaten strike action if deployed to Ukraine

msb ^ | 02/23/2025 | daily mail

[BenLurkin]

SAS soldiers are threatening to go ‘on strike’ if they are deployed to Ukraine unless they receive assurances they will not face future prosecution for using lethal force.

The rebellion follows a coroner’s court ruling that the Special Forces were not justified in using lethal force against four IRA members in a 1992 ambush, and on the back of an ongoing public inquiry into allied extrajudicial killings in Afghanistan.

Four Provisional IRA members were shot dead by British soldiers minutes after they had carried out a gun attack on Coalisland RUC station in February 1992, and on Thursday at Belfast Royal Courts of Justice, a coroner – who had previously ruled the soldiers did not have an honest belief in the necessity of using lethal force – referred the case to the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Last night, senior defence sources said the SAS was facing the worst crisis in its history and called for the troops to be given the same legal protection against prosecution afforded to MI6 agents.

A defence source said: ‘We need a change in the law to give our Special Forces the full protection of the Crown – otherwise within a decade we will not have the SAS. Why should they go on to the frontline against Putin if this is hanging over them?

‘Morale is through the floor, blokes are leaving and the regiment is suffering. They are being forced to increase recruiting from the wider Army.

[Svartalfiar]

Trump is looking at bombing Mexican cartels, against Mexican government wishes, because an armed narco state on our border has killed tens of thousands of our citizens and is a national security threat When Russia does it - it’s merely because they are evil

Mexican cartels are criminal organizations that own the Mexican government, and are actually a major component of killing US citizens.

What drugs was Ukraine pushing into Moscow? How many Russian citizens were killed by Ukraine before the special military operation? Before the little green men suddenly turned into Spetsnaz? What did Ukraine ever do inside Russia's borders? Russia invaded because "oh no, they might join a defensive military alliance with someone. Oh, and they're full of "Nazis" too!". (Yes, going with their claimed reason, not the actual land/influence grab.)

Russia's special military operation was almost entirely offensive, and defensive only with the fun twisting wordplay. These US hitting the cartels would be a defensive operation, wouldn't be necessary if Mexico would police itself properly, and isn't us attacking the country itself.

[Svartalfiar]

If I lived in Europe I’d be more concerned about Russia than I am sitting in my hovel here in the western hemisphere. Russia will always have designs on its neighbors. It’s just how they are.

Why? Russia's taken three years and haven't even gotten more than 100 miles into Ukraine, against a country 1/3 their size, a smaller military, using a hodgepodge of older and obsolete equipment. How does Russia pose any threat to the rest of Europe?