11/8/2022 0 Comments Nlo helmet![]() ![]() “This is a way of tying in populations from other countries to the Ukrainian war and the outcome of the war,” said Ilmari Kaihko, an associate professor of war studies at the Swedish Defense University who has researched Ukraine’s conflict. If nothing else, the foreigners may be useful for public relations purposes, demonstrating the global support for Ukraine. Others are landing in the capital without contacts or speaking the language, hoping that someone will get them trained and shipped to the front. Some would-be fighters are processed in their home nations. It remains unclear what added utility the arriving foreign recruits can bring as soldiers, medical aides or logistics personnel on the battlefields.Īnd the government’s volunteer program, at times, appears to be disorganized, according to interviews with five volunteers and an ethnic Georgian commander who has enlisted Americans and other foreigners into his own paramilitary force in Ukraine. ![]() ![]() They’ve seen the images of civilians being killed by Russian bombardments, and like those who went to Spain, they believe they are on the right side of history. They say they do share a sense of righteous conviction. While some experienced American veterans of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are said to be among the volunteers, many of these would-be fighters, such as Adam, are novices at best. In Ukraine’s brutal modern war, though, the romance of adventure and political convictions can quickly vanish as volunteers get pounded by airstrikes, Grad rockets and artillery shells, or engage in urban warfare on the streets of cities. That conflict became a losing battle against nationalists led by General Francisco Franco, with the support of Nazi Germany and the fascist Italian government of Benito Mussolini. They have been compared to the 32,000 foreigners, mostly Americans and Europeans, many of them equally unprepared, who joined the republican forces in Spain’s 1936-39 civil war. Now, as the conflict enters its fourth week, a growing number of foreign volunteers are flowing into the capital, signing contracts and receiving weapons and combat training before getting deployed to one of the numerous front lines of the war. Since Russia invaded Ukraine, thousands of Americans and other foreign nationals have signed up to fight for Ukraine, answering a call to action by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. And Ukraine is the underdog, so they need help.” Which is great at times because it allows risktaking, but in times like this, well it leads to idiotic deaths.“Democracy and freedom are very important to the whole world,” said Adam, seated in the lobby of a Kyiv hotel, along with other foreigners dressed in their new military camouflage who have joined his unit. I guarantee you if these guys had decent prospects and jobs, they would not go willy nilly to thier own deaths.Īlso, young men tend to grossly overestimate their own abilities. Men/boys who have nothing and a glorious death is better than their current existence. I wonder how many of them think that after this war is over they will be able to attract women by saying I served in Ukraine!?Īnd the 'manufactured' part of it comes in, where our countries create economic conditions which ensure there will always be a surplus of this kind of man fodder. Many of these guys have no prospects, so the idea of achieving eternal glory, even if through death sounds appealing. There is a deep rooted narrative, and manufactured conditions, to make men think that those who die in righteous battle will be glorified. This is the same (but different) version of those guys from many western countries who showed up to Iraq, Syria, Lybia etc to do Jihad. ![]()
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