It’s a bit of a slow news day so far and, to be honest, I’m a bit burned out. Yesterday AFP published an article that focused on a Ukrainian unit that, according to the story, had been pulled from the front line in Eastern Ukraine for a week’s worth of rest and recuperation. Even a cursory reading yesterday suggested that the real story is even grimmer than the published version lets on.
"To compensate for the lack of soldiers, the Ukrainian government resorted to paramilitary militias. They are essentially composed of foreign mercenaries, often extreme right-wing militants. In 2020, they constituted about 40 percent of the Ukrainian forces and numbered about 102,000 men, according to Reuters."
The Reuters article corroborated that the paramilitary numbered about 40% of Ukrainian forces, but I don't see any support for the idea these are mostly foreign fighters (much less "extreme right-wing militants"). Logically, why would a foreign neo-fascist go to Ukraine to fight Russia? That doesn't make any sense. Putin has been the chief global spokesperson against the Western liberal order for two decades now...I can't imagine, say, a group of U.S. skinheads heading off to go fight Russia.
Damn the evil globalists, the neocon war party, think of all the death and destruction that those craven madmen have wrought in the last 30 years. I was suckered in by them since I enlisted in the Texas Air National Guard in 1991 after previously serving from 1981-1987.
Was looking at Gonzalo's twitter earlier this afternoon and was able to catch the live stream of him, the Duran, and Adrei Martyanov. Quite fascinating and went on for 2.5 hours. A lot of the above does come out during the discussion.
"To compensate for the lack of soldiers, the Ukrainian government resorted to paramilitary militias. They are essentially composed of foreign mercenaries, often extreme right-wing militants. In 2020, they constituted about 40 percent of the Ukrainian forces and numbered about 102,000 men, according to Reuters."
The Reuters article corroborated that the paramilitary numbered about 40% of Ukrainian forces, but I don't see any support for the idea these are mostly foreign fighters (much less "extreme right-wing militants"). Logically, why would a foreign neo-fascist go to Ukraine to fight Russia? That doesn't make any sense. Putin has been the chief global spokesperson against the Western liberal order for two decades now...I can't imagine, say, a group of U.S. skinheads heading off to go fight Russia.
Damn the evil globalists, the neocon war party, think of all the death and destruction that those craven madmen have wrought in the last 30 years. I was suckered in by them since I enlisted in the Texas Air National Guard in 1991 after previously serving from 1981-1987.
Was looking at Gonzalo's twitter earlier this afternoon and was able to catch the live stream of him, the Duran, and Adrei Martyanov. Quite fascinating and went on for 2.5 hours. A lot of the above does come out during the discussion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPrDl414AFM
I'll just note, I like Alexander, but prefer to watch him at 1.25x speed since he tends to be a bit winded. Still, a great show.