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2022-03-17 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by badanov 2022-03-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 We kept hearing about the casualties resulting from this strike. Given what the base was being used for, silence regarding who those casualties actually were is disconcerting.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2022-03-17 01:53|| 2022-03-17 01:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Colombian soldier of fortune's had enough: "he is no longer going to fight that war because his group only had one cartridge per magazine and did not have helmets or protection to defend themselves against the Russians."

Posted by Thruling Flavitle6987 2022-03-17 05:06|| 2022-03-17 05:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Ukrainians have asked the French to stop sending mercenaries to fight in Ukraine after Yavorivsky Training Camp strike

Posted by Whaviling Protector of the Gepids5667 2022-03-17 06:43|| 2022-03-17 06:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Anything sent to the Ukraine that has a footprint, aka infrastructure that it needs (training camps, airbases, etc.) WILL be hit by the Russians. If there are any NATO personnel there, that is a great way to escalate the war.

I'm surprised someone put up a camp instead of just breaking them off into training battalions spread all over the place. Juicy target and Russia won't pass it up.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-03-17 11:22|| 2022-03-17 11:22|| Front Page Top

#5 surprised someone put up a camp
Not surprising if their goal is to trigger a war with Russia

Posted by Phelet Gray3241 2022-03-17 11:23|| 2022-03-17 11:23|| Front Page Top

#6 What was this guy expecting? He's shocked that the Ukrainians would simply hand him a gun plus a box of cartridges and tell him "The Russians are that way. See if you can kill some before they kill you." They're just treating you they same way they're treating themselves!

Posted by Secret Master 2022-03-17 17:55|| 2022-03-17 17:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Reports are that the Ukrainian authorities are turning back the cold-footed legionnaires at the border, forcing them to head back to the front lines. Talk about your bad bets... the financee of Henry Hoeft of Frazeysburg, Ohio describes in this video the poor lug's sad experience: "They were shot at, They would not let them leave”

Posted by Slusose Gleaque1403 2022-03-17 19:43|| 2022-03-17 19:43|| Front Page Top

#8 Like Willard's voice over in Apocalypse Now: "Charlie had only two ways home. Victory. Or death..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-17 19:58|| 2022-03-17 19:58|| Front Page Top

#9 They were shot at
Buck up buttercup. You're not facing goatherders anymore. No Warthogs to bail your ass out either

Posted by Chaviter Fillmore8682 2022-03-17 20:04|| 2022-03-17 20:04|| Front Page Top

#10 Looks like a GoPro video taken by an American legionnaire engaged by the enemy ("indirect fire"?) near a farmhouse. No idea who trained these guys but they're definitely amateurs. The Ukrainians deserve better than this

Posted by Uloluling Ebbiger9696 2022-03-17 20:20|| 2022-03-17 20:20|| Front Page Top

#11 Henry Hoeft's fiancé says he told her "The area he was in was under attack, and they were losing way too many people, and it wasn't looking good... [at the Polish border] they had to pose as civilians and use the name of a humanitarian organization to [get across the border and escape fighting] ... the Ukrainians lied. They're not letting any Americans or foreign fighters leave..."

Posted by Bob Bonaparte6465 2022-03-17 20:30|| 2022-03-17 20:30|| Front Page Top

#12 The Ukrainians deserve better than this
We're not sending our best

Posted by Vernal Thomort4230 2022-03-17 20:33|| 2022-03-17 20:33|| Front Page Top

#13 Wow, 2nd year ROTC (college) in Ranger club could do better. That said I bet the good ones are not posting GoPro videos

Posted by Silentbrick 2022-03-17 21:03|| 2022-03-17 21:03|| Front Page Top

#14 Henry Hoeft is a LARPer, also a member of the Boogaloo Bois (maybe that's redundant).

Operating under the alias “Henry Locke,” the man was among a team of Ohio Boogaloo members who were at a Black Lives Matter protest carrying AK-47s, AR-15s and extra magazines last year. He said he distanced himself from the far-right group after it "got all crazy." However, among the seven people with whom he is traveling to Ukraine, Hoeft said, is Mike Dunn, the former leader of the Last Sons of Liberty, a faction of the Boogaloo Bois. Dunn could not be reached for comment.

Posted by Snomotch Sholutch9344 2022-03-17 21:14|| 2022-03-17 21:14|| Front Page Top

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