I don’t know whether Duckworth is a merc-type volunteer or a humanitarian-type volunteer, and don’t much care. Often, they are or claim to be both, and ask for donations. Some tag along after real fighters and post videos on social media, others video themselves delivering aid to people, but most of the time are living it up at a nice hotel in Lviv, when not drinking beer and eating pizza in Kramatorsk while on a little field trip for photo-ops.
If he’s a humanitarian type volunteer, he’s not working for a legitimate humanitarian organization that I can see. There are more than enough Make-Up-Your-Own-NGO-And-Get-Other-People-To-Pay-For-Your-Adventure-As-War-Tourist types operating over there. Some are total scammers, some good-hearted and mean well and have some weird need to be seen as brave saints and be admired on social media.
There are way too many James Vasquez types milling about in Ukraine:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4142443/posts?page=10#10
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4140157/posts
Another dodgy “volunteer”:
Maybe Duckworth means well. Maybe he really saw mostly civilians there, or maybe he just said so because it’s good for donations and also what the Western media want to hear — and what the host country wants him to say (say the wrong thing to the media and you get declared PNG and kicked out of the country).
The South African guy on the video who said there were soldiers all over under the rubble seemed to be speaking spontaneously and I believe him more than I believe this Duckworth guy. A number of pro-Ukrainian mainstream Western media articles stated the pizza restaurant was very popular with soldiers. Yet we are to believe only civilians and kids’ parties?
You are so full of it, up on your high horse falsely accusing people and virtue signalling. I never supported the bombing of civilians and kids’ parties. I think it’s horrible and said so. I also said these things happen in wars. Wars are horrible.
Bookmarked...James Vasquez....Thanks
None of the people you claim are "dodgy" volunteers were involved with the situation in Kramatorsk, so why did you bring them up? Are you so captivated by Putin that you feel the need to create some kind of distraction to cover up his war crimes?
Take a look at the woman below trapped in the rubble. Does she look like some mercenary?
