Posted on 09/20/2024 6:27:21 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE
Russell Bentley, 64, who fought alongside pro-Putin rebels in eastern Ukraine, was tortured and murdered by Russian servicemen, Kremlin investigators said on Friday. Bentley, a self-described communist from Dallas, Texas, went missing in the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk in April and was later found dead. Nicknamed “Texas”, he regularly appeared on pro-Kremlin social media channels, backing Moscow’s full-scale military offensive.
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Are you talking about the guy in the article?
“Bentley was a long-time supporter of the Kremlin, having joined pro-Russia separatists in 2014 to fight against Ukrainian forces following the occupation of Crimea.
He fought for the Donetsk-based Vostok battalion between 2014 and 2017 and became a Russian citizen in 2021.”
So, who do YOU trust more: a psychopathic/sociopath/murdering genocidal maniac like Z, or someone who is fighting a corrupt Globalist cabal?
Well, I just want this foolishness to stop. I trust neither because were looking at the possible end of civilization.
Wallace T.:
“This man appears to be cut from the same cloth as Ryan Routh, the alleged would be assassin of Trump. Both supported Ukraine and espoused left wing beliefs.”
USA-FRANCE:
Ryan Routhwas an impostor. It’s astonishing he voted for Trump...
He wanted all Arabs to eradicate Israel. Zelenski being a Jew... Ryan was obviously anti Zelenski.
Ukraine supporters are well known to be pro Israel supporters and vice-versa.
There is a close, long standing relationship between Ukraine and Israel:
The Israeli Reaction to the War in Ukraine
https://www.iwm.at/publication/iwmpost-article/the-israeli-reaction-to-the-war-in-ukraine
"In February 1996, Bentley's house was raided by the police and he was arrested for felony trafficking of marijuana. He received a sentence of five years and three months. Although he was supposed to be released at the end of 1999, in August 1999, Bentley escaped from prison. He lived as a fugitive until 2007, when he was captured and sent to a maximum-security prison to serve the remainder of his sentence. He was released from prison the following summer."After getting out of prison, he moved toward communist politics. Then in 2014, moved to Donetsk to fight for the Russia "separatists" (AKA the FSB, SVR, Wagner, and regular Russian army). Marijuana trafficking is illegal in Russia and did not push his activism inside Russia.
My 2¢'s, he was an adrenaline junkie and hero in his own mind. He went to Donetsk to become the hero he never was and get back at the US for wronging him. The classic traits intelligence agencies look for in recruiting people willing to turn on their own country.
On the other side, his murderers, and that's what they were, absolutely deserve a court martial. Except Russia can't give them that, since the SMO is not covered under Russian law that applies to soldiers fighting legally authorized laws in wars outside Russian borders.
Your find is highly interesting, thank you for the input Widget Jr.
With Biden saying he’s about to authorize long range missile strikes on Russia, it’s probably a bad time to be an American in the Urkaine right now. One FReeper outlined a possible trajectory which would have meant he was recruited by the CIA. That would explain online theories that he was ‘mistaken for a US spy’.
“There is a close, long standing relationship between Ukraine and Israel:’
This is total lying garbage. There was another vicious anti-Israel vote in the UN this past Wednesday. Guess which country, the supposed “good friend” of Israel didn’t vote against it, yes, the Ukraine. With “friends” like that...
I’m torn. These are my countrymen but what did they expect if the Russians caught them? The Geneva Convention? At some point you are responsible for your choices good or bad.
War crimes but I’m not getting the vapors.
(1) Big skeletons in their closets, and (2) bigger chips on their shoulders about their skeletons.
Every. Single. One. Of. Them.
I guess the Russians really don’t like American Communists.
Sounds sensible.
Communists have an extensive history of murdering their own.
Russian troops murdering American citizens.
This is why we call Russian soldiers war criminals.
“What I have found out I look into the more vocal pro-Russia voices in the west, Gonzalo Lira, Alexander Mercouris, Douglas Macgregor (!!! x 100), Clayton Morris, etc, they all have two things in common:
(1) Big skeletons in their closets, and (2) bigger chips on their shoulders about their skeletons.”
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Indeed, they have impressive skeletons in their closets, and probably that’s just the tip of the iceberg... The FSB / KGB know all the other things they have done... and that’s being used against them as blackmail, making them slaves to mother Russia now. They serve the Kremlin with anti-American propaganda in a very explicit way.
And lets not forget Scott Ritter...
Canuck is back with a standard reactionary / propaganda “hot take.”
let me guess, work for the US main stream media, don’t you?
Here's a photo of the "band leader" of the Russian "punk rock" group, PUSSY RIOT, visiting Anthony Blinken at the US State Dept.
Weird. Does the US State Dept. and especially the Secretary of State, normally host pop music entertainers? Has he hosted Taylor Swift? How about Billy Eilish? No?
Why PUSSY RIOT? Just there to give a report to the boss, perhaps?
Horse Manure, Nazi Froggy Foreigner.
Routh was the real deal, an Azov Nazi Uke Agent, Asset, and Agitator while being a Traitor, Criminal, Thief, Agitator, Uke Agent and failed Trump Assassin in America.
Just like Zeepers are Azov Nazi Uke Agents, Assets, and Agitators while being Traitors, Criminals, and Thieves.
Projection is why you Nazi Zeepers call anyone war criminals.
LOL, Routh was a nut-job who went to Ukraine, and was rejected
In Ukraine, Trump plot suspect remembered as 'delusional'
The legion was set up and run by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. “Vetting was very elaborate,” Nance told me. “You had to enter through Poland, go through a tent on the Ukrainian side, wait for a van to come take you to a special site. You needed to have military experience; initially, you needed to have combat experience. You were taken to a basic-training battalion at a training facility. All this applied to everyone who came through. Anyone who came from outside of that chain was not allowed to join.” The process was tight, he said, “because there was a lot of concern about Russian infiltration.”
Routh went through none of these processes. In a 2022 Newsweek Romania interview, which CBS News dug up, Routh said that the Ukrainian defense ministry had rejected his attempts to join the war effort because of his age (he is now 58) and lack of military experience. (The latter was probably more relevant. Nance was 61 when he applied, and he was accepted.)
In June of this year, the International Legion put out a statement “warning about Ryan Routh: he is not, and never has been, associated with the International Legion or the Ukrainian Armed Forces at all. He is not, & never has been, a legion recruiter. He is misrepresenting himself and lying to many people.” The legion issued a similar statement on Sunday.
The Azov Brigade, a former militia that is now part of Ukraine’s National Guard, also issued a statement after social media posted a clip from a video showing Routh at an Azov rally. Routh “has no connection to Azov and has never had any connection,” the statement said. The rally “was open … anyone could join it.” Routh was “caught on the video … by accident.”
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