A couple of points...first the person they're referring to here is none other than Aiden Aslin aka the famous @cossackghundi. Secondly this mope is formally enlisted in Ukraine's military and as such he's entitled to full POW status under the Geneva convention...even though he's said many things he may now regret.
+Posted by: La Bastille | Apr 10 2022 14:52 utc | 13
Transcript of Cnews video on
Transcription by RM + machine translation
Régis Le Sommier:
“I just spent 8 days in Ukraine, and I accompanied French volunteers (...), one of whom had been a soldier before and 2 of whom had fought in ‘Rojava’ - so people who had military experience, I spent several days with them, and I was surprised, and so were they, to discover that in order to go into the Ukrainian army, well, it’s the Americans who are in charge. ....
....We almost got arrested, we were confronted with an American who came to tell us ‘here, it’s not the Ukrainians who are in charge, it’s me who is in charge’, - I’m talking about the training and the enrolment of international volunteers in the Ukrainian army. I was extremely surprised by the violence of the words of this American, by the fact that he took us for volunteers at the beginning, when he saw that we were journalists, he first told us to get out, then he was a little more uh [conciliatory?.....
The contract [that he makes the volunteers sign] stipulates that you fight until the end of the war in the Ukrainian army. And who is in charge? Well, it’s the Americans, I saw it with my own eyes. So it’s not the American army officially, obviously, but in this case it’s quite significant.
I had the impression ‘somewhere’ that this war, beyond the romantic aspect, ... I had the impression to be with the international brigades and in fine I find myself with the Pentagon. So this war is a Russian-American war, that’s the bottom of the problem, and the Europeans and everyone else around [the Ukrainians?], it’s a bit on the fringe.
Posted by: Bastille | Apr 10 2022 15:04 utc | 18