Posted on 05/04/2022 11:13:57 AM PDT by Mount Athos
People of many different nationalities are fighting against Russia in Ukraine. TV 2's Rasmus Tantholdt has spoken to one of them at a hospital.
In a hospital somewhere in Ukraine lies a wounded soldier.
His face is from the hairline of his forehead to the cleft of his chin covered with small wounds, the arms of bandages, and his sight is greatly impaired after being struck by splinters from a grenade.
There are many of them in the Ukrainian hospitals, but this man is different. He is a US citizen and from Cleveland in the United States.
His name is Manus and he has been taken to Ukraine as a foreign warrior to fight against the Russian forces. Exactly like the 25-year-old Dane who was killed in Ukraine last week.
Manus does not want to reveal his last name, but to TV 2's correspondent Rasmus Tantholdt and photographer Simon Borg, who is in the city, he says that an artillery shell exploded one and a half meters from him:
- My face and upper body were filled with splinters. But I was conscious all the time and I'm recovering now so I can go back.
For he wants back, he says laughing - and preferably as soon as possible. Because it's about people's lives, he explains:
- To see people around me and how awful it is. Seeing the comrades go through Butja and with their own eyes see what they (the Russians, ed.) Did to the women.
American Manus is not the only foreign warrior in Ukraine. Many nationalities have signed up for the Ukrainian Foreign Legion - most recently, two Japanese nationals, according to Rasmus Tantholdt, have signed up under the banner.
They do not play a decisive role in the possibility of Ukraine winning the war, but for the individual Ukrainian division it may have an impact. Because just like the slain Dane, Manus is also an experienced and trained soldier.
- When there are soldiers who can operate the weapons with which they are equipped, it has a meaning, Rasmus Tantholdt explains.
And then their presence in Ukraine plays a role in relation to the signal value - to be able to tell Russia that people are coming from all over the world to fight on the Ukrainian side.
The Ukrainians' indomitable and persistent will to fight not to let their country fall into Russian hands has repeatedly surprised the outside world in the now two-month-long war.
While Rasmus Tantholdt, as an experienced war correspondent, calls the fighting spirit "an extreme experience," American Manus believes that it will ultimately make the Ukrainians victorious.
- I have never seen anything like that. "I do not think the Russians will ever control the area they want when the Ukrainians have that fighting spirit," he told TV 2.
But what is it that drives foreign nationals to voluntarily fight for a family, city, country and home that is far away from theirs?
From Manus the answer is that he is fighting for the values of the free world and for the family he does not yet have.
- He feels that he is fighting on behalf of the children and grandchildren he may have at some point, says Rasmus Tantholdt.
Whether it will be possible for Manus to return to the front is unknown.
According to the doctors at the hospital, he will probably get his sight back in one eye, while there is only a 50 percent chance that he will get his sight back in the other.
Unlike the 25-year-old Dane, however, he still has his life.
Was he paid by a private contracting group like the American killed last week?
I encourage all the people who want to die for Ukraine to buy a ticket and go fight.
“… he says that an artillery shell exploded one and a half meters from him…”
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Artillery shell exploded 1.5 meters from him? I seriously doubt it. The “kill radius” of an artillery shell is many, many meters more than that.
The original in danish says artillerigranat, “Artillery grenade”. Maybe it’s one of the tiny grenades fired by AG17. Watch this:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/1xIEheXwcCZy/
nevermind he says clearly “artillery shell” in english.
I guess technically ag17 are artillery shell though...
These idiot kids think they’re fighting for freedom, when in reality they are just the expendable pawns of the globalists.
“These idiot kids think they’re fighting for freedom, when in reality they are just the expendable pawns of the globalists.”
I thought they were all Nazis? I could swear someone told me that anyone fighting against the noble Russians had to be a Nazi.
Which reminds me, do you know anything about the thousands of Americans rushing off to Russia to fight against the Nazis? You know, like so many Americans did eighty years ago?
What Russian Army group has the most American volunteers?
Just curious.
You seem confused - Azov and Right Sector are the Nazis, the others are just plain old idiots. Americans who fought in WW2 weren’t fighting for Russia, they were fighting for our own perceived interests.
Interesting that not even any Russian-American kids are heading back to Russia to help the Rodina in this Second Great Patriotic War. Comrade Vladimir must be so disappointed.
So? I’m half Irish but never felt compelled to join the IRA and blow up the Brits. (of course the other half of my ancestry is Brit, so that might complicate things lol).
My Scots-Irish grandmother lived near to Boston and when I was a kid in the early 1970’s I got to see her hand off cash to the occasional guys with big smiles and incomprehensible brogues. Took me a few years to realize what that was all about.
No doubt there were some involved in that, especially in a place like Boston or NYC with their heavily Irish enclaves where a higher degree ethnicism might have existed at the time. My family was the opposite, completely assimilated, even my father (Brit) who immigrated here as a teen. He even felt obligated to volunteer to fight in Vietnam (at 27 y/o), felt he owed it to this country for allowing him in. You don’t see much of that attitude among immigrants these day.
Yeah, and at 1 1/2 meters it simply shreds everything.
That’s too bad. He seems to think that the rest of the world is bound by American rules of engagement.
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