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‘It's a Trap’: American Boogaloo Bois in Ukraine say they were given no weapons, NATO military base ‘got fucked up’ and most were killed
2022-03-18
Yesterday we had his video. Today we get the rest of the story.
[NYMag] Henry Hoeft, a 28-year-old former U.S. Army infantryman and steelworker from a small town outside Columbus, Ohio, was compelled earlier this month to leave his young son to fight in Ukraine, where his father’s family has its roots. After fundraising online and saying his good-byes, Hoeft packed up some of the combat gear he used sporadically in recent years as a member of the boogaloo boys — the extremist, anti-government militia that rose to notoriety in 2020 — and took the route that has become common for the thousands of ex-military types attracted to the newly established Ukrainian foreign legion. Posting about his journey on TikTok and Instagram, he flew to Poland, crossed the border around March 9 with fellow Ohio boogaloo alum Mike Dunn, and joined an outfit accepting combat volunteers from abroad.

“I hope that the war will end tomorrow,” he told the Columbus Dispatch before leaving. “But I will be there for as long as it takes.” Dunn and Hoeft looked energized as they provided family members and thousands of followers with travel updates on social media. After arriving in Ukraine, they described suiting up with the Georgian National Legion (which, unlike some similar groups, does not require foreign fighters to sign indefinite contracts). But within the week, Hoeft had a different message: “People need to stop coming here.”

In a video posted to his Instagram Stories on March 15, Hoeft claimed that he was serving with the Georgian contingent in Ukraine when his base “got fucked up” and a number of foreign volunteers from the U.S. and Great Britain were killed. (A Russian Defense Ministry spokesman referred to military volunteers earlier this month as “mercenaries” who would not be “considered as combatants in accordance with international humanitarian law.”) Hoeft said that when a group of American, Canadian, and British volunteers refused an order to serve in Kyiv with “no fucking weapons” and partially filled magazines, they were told “to get the fuck out” of the brigade. Hoeft says he and two others then hid in the back of an ambulance trying to leave the country. At the border, they stripped off their military gear to pose as civilians when they heard customs officials were sending foreign-legion volunteers back to the front. “It’s a trap,” he said in a video recorded in Poland.

Hoeft’s message and his decision to bow out of the fight early appeared to create a rift between him and Dunn, the former leader of a boogaloo faction in Ohio called the Last Sons of Liberty. A former Marine who says his military career was shortened by a heart condition, Dunn told ProPublica last year that he was “willing to die in the streets” fighting the U.S. government. (Hoeft claims he ditched the Last Sons when the group “got all crazy.”) On his TikTok account, which has now been banned, Dunn pushed back on Hoeft’s claims, while other Georgian National Legion volunteers denied Hoeft’s allegations that they were threatened if they did not leave the unit.
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Posted by:Spaigum Chinegum2410

#7  Dron, we had a report about Mr. Hunter here. Possibly you were on walkabout at the time.
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-03-18 23:04  

#6  Sounds like he arrived kitted out for an episode of Naked and Afraid. You can rule out the term "mercenary" for anyone who arrived at the party unarmed.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-03-18 12:36  

#5  ^ The boogaloo boys are a militia in America. They also call themselves the boojaheddin just for kicks. Look for Boogaloo Movement. Yes, it's a thing. Described as 'libertarian survivalist nuts', at least one of them also doubled up as a BLMer. I wish I could call them adrenaline junkies, they seems to be more regular retards like.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-03-18 12:18  

#4  LOL the media is calling them boogaloo boys now? This is such transparent propaganda. This story was out days ago, and is quite likely a lie from whole cloth.
Posted by: Sheter the Lesser9291   2022-03-18 12:12  

#3  What did he think was going to happen, the potential ground zero of WWIII?

On his TikTok account,

Oh. Tiktok influencer. Sorry, WW111.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-03-18 11:31  

#2  Hoeft says he and two others then hid in the back of an ambulance trying to leave the country. At the border, they stripped off their military gear to pose as civilians when they heard customs officials were sending foreign-legion volunteers back to the front. “It’s a trap,” he said in a video recorded in Poland
It's almost like we're being fed a bunch of lies about all the "courageous" "heroes" of the "resistance"
Posted by: Whoger Prince of the Danes8295   2022-03-18 11:27  

#1  career was shortened by a heart condition,Dunn told ProPublica last year that he was “willing to die in the streets” fighting the U.S. government.


"But I'll settle... wheeze... for the Russians."
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-03-18 11:23  

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