Posted on 09/16/2024 6:08:56 PM PDT by KingofZion
Last year I was working on an article about foreign fighters and volunteers in Ukraine...
Among the people I interviewed: Ryan Wesley Routh, the 58-year-old man whom the F.B.I. is investigating in what it is calling an assassination attempt...
Mr. Routh, who had spent some time in Ukraine trying to raise support for the war, was seeking recruits from among Afghan soldiers who fled the Taliban...
There were a few complications. Mr. Routh, a former construction worker from Greensboro, N. C., said he never fought in Ukraine himself — he was too old and had no military experience.
*** When I talked to Mr. Routh in March of last year, he had compiled a list of hundreds of Afghans spread between Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan whom he wanted to fly, somehow, to Ukraine. Mr. Routh told one Afghan he was helping: “I am just a civilian.”
My conversation with Mr. Routh was brief. He was in Washington, D.C., he said, and had planned for a two-hour meeting with some congressmen about Ukraine. (It’s unclear if that meeting ever happened.)
By the time I got off the phone with Mr. Routh some minutes later, it was clear he was in way over his head.
He talked of buying off corrupt officials, forging passports and doing whatever it took to get his Afghan cadre to Ukraine, but he had no real way to accomplish his goals. At one point he mentioned arranging a U.S. military transport flight from Iraq to Poland with Afghan refugees willing to fight.
I shook my head. It sounded ridiculous, but the tone in Mr. Routh’s voice said otherwise. He was going to back Ukraine’s war effort, no matter what.
Like many of the volunteers I interviewed, he fell off the map again. Until Sunday.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Mr. Gibbons-Neff couldn't slip an "alleged" in there just for good measure?
Routh met with U.S. senators, he was a well known actor in neocon politics. He was probably a Zeeper.
The reporter must have given advice IMHO.
Mr gibbons-neff is quite the creep.
The reporter is involved with the conspiracy.
BUMP
“He was probably a Zeeper.”
I don’t know what a Zeeper is officially but got the impression that a Zeeper was first a Freeper?
How did the author come to know and make contact w Routh?
Why didn’t the author point out all of this when he interviewed and reported on Routh in 2023?
Hyphenated Neff is an alleged reporter.
do you read FR very often?
(playing 6 years old doesn’t really work here)
No kidding...
You have to be pulling my leg. We've been beating up on Zeepers for two years on this forum and if you don't know what the term means I cannot help you. You've been here quite a while so I won't even pretend that your question is honest..
“How was this guy not on the radar for FBI and secret service??”
There are to many Democrats to keep track of?
“You have to be pulling my leg. We’ve been beating up on Zeepers for two years on this forum and if you don’t know what the term means I cannot help you. You’ve been here quite a while so I won’t even pretend that your question is honest..”
You must know that I don’t do Ukraine threads. How about an honest answer instead. I guess you didn’t see JR’s post today ...
I will humor you.
A Zeeper is a Freeper that is gay for Zelensky and the Ukraine. They are neocon deceptions that worship the Forever War like the Cheneys and they rank somewhere between explosive diarrhea and venomous snakes.
I’ve been hearing that term here more and more. I’m assuming it means a gen Z Freeper, but maybe I’m way off
He was an “asset”.
“He was an “asset”.”
Absolutely. this is CIA work here. To the benefit of the MIC.
I’ve been here for years and also assumed it meant genZ.
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