Posted on 05/29/2022 11:40:27 PM PDT by Mount Athos
To Dakota’s surprise, it wasn’t the shelling that terrified him most.
What wasn’t normal, he said, was the feeling of dread while he hid and listened as Russian attack helicopters strafed the position his team of tank hunters had just fled.
Foreign fighters from the United States and elsewhere described glaring disparities between what they expected the war to be like and what they experienced.
(...)
By the end of the second night, eight of the 20 volunteers in Dakota’s unit had abandoned their posts, including a fellow Marine veteran who appeared to break his machine gun with a rock in the hope of passing it off as battle damage. Another feigned an injury, he said.
{Dakota} was diagnosed with a brain injury linked to his proximity to the shelling, he said, and left for home toward the end of April. He has been in recovery ever since.
Pascal, a veteran of the German army, was on a team with Cancel, the American killed in combat in late April.
The day Cancel was killed, he said, they took fire from a position they believed to be Ukrainian but didn’t have radio communication to confirm. Two members of the team ventured out to investigate. Gunfire sounded, and they never returned, he said.
(...) One team member was killed in the shelling. Pascal and another volunteer turned their attention to Cancel, who had been struck by shrapnel. They applied tourniquets in a fruitless attempt to stop the bleeding. Their bodies were left behind as Pascal and another survivor withdrew.
Miller, the American volunteer, met him at a bar in Warsaw and noted how shaken up he seemed.
“From the beginning, we had no chance,” Pascal said in an interview. “I was asking myself why I survived and the others did not.”
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How many times will you cut and paste that same BS?
Fools.
Look who writes these stories for American consumption.
Pay close attention to the leftist media. They are prepping everyone for the Russkie victory. Another story today, “EU Sanctions Falling Apart.” Yep.
This was inevitable. Dunno why some people really thought there would be another outcome.
Mercenaries can find much better jobs that pay more money and present less risk than Ukraine.
But as any merc who barely escaped Qaddhafi’s Libya will tell you: make sure you’ve got your escape route planned and paid for when the dictator’s checks start bouncing.
Well, your reputation for supporting the democraps and their child molesting, money laundering, corruption of the Ukraine is well known.
The American way of war has been with overwhelming fire support, air support, and supplies.
This is not that war.
It is an insurgency in many ways. Few supplies, no coms, and at the end of the day you are an anglo in a slavic war.
Fresh meat.
That as stupid as saying all those in CA are Newsome suppoters because they support firefighting efforts he authorized.
I noticed that also.
Now with the two wind up toy attacks, and the failure of the third, they are getting ready for the big mid term push on gun control, infanticide, and free college tuition for trannies.
Shut moronic NOOB hole, running and yelling between Uke threads like a blazing, flaming bag-o-douche.
You’re just dirtying the place up and looking dumb.
My , my, don’t you seem greatly triggered. I’ll have to keep you in mind for special treatment.
Tokyo Rose WAPO stories
Hold your nose as you read this contrived nonsense.
These are lunatic desperation moves that will only push GOP margins higher in November. Our task is to make sure that the RIGHT GOP get in.
Not true, see the Wagner Group that does Putin's dirty work around the world.
“Not true, see the Wagner Group that does Putin’s dirty work around the world.”
Fair comment - Russia doesn’t like Western mercenaries.
“Trump didn’t do that.”
Sending $40,000,000,000 to Ukraine, the second most corrupt country in Europe, is totally “ridin’ with Biden.”
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