The Biden administration is moving towards lifting a de facto ban on American military contractors deploying to Ukraine, four US officials familiar with the matter told CNN, to help the country’s military maintain and repair US-provided weapons systems.
The stories from those that made it back were really hilarious. They were absolutely shocked to find out that fighting a professional army is nothing like hunting civilians in Afghanistan.
Broadly speaking, many of them went in with the tacit assumption that the propaganda was all true (Russians 'astounded' by paved roads, constantly deserting, poorly equipped, etc), then when they actually started fighting they realized
A. That was horseshit (obviously) and
B. What happens when they're on the side that doesn't have air and armor superiority
There was a big post back when it started by some American pmc clown that posted about how his 'barracks' got bombed and how a ton of them were dead
The four armed contractors, Scott Helvenston, Jerry Zovko, Wesley Batalona, and Mike Teague, were killed and dragged from their vehicles. Their bodies were beaten and burned, with their charred corpses then dragged through the city streets before being hanged over a bridge crossing the Euphrates River.
The ambush led to the First Battle of Fallujah, a U.S.-led operation to retake control of the city. However, the battle was halted mid-way for political reasons, an outcome which commentators have described as insurgent victory.
"W-we would've won if we weren't stabbed in the back! They didn't win, that's the lying fake news media!"
Exactly! That is who most of the so-called "volunteers" actually are. And there are certain US-supplied weapons systems that Ukrainian conscripts have zero ability to operate in the first place (like Patriots and probably even HIMARS launchers). So when Russian forces blow them up (which they do), we can be fairly certain that US (or other NATO) "contractors" are getting killed (which they are).
And potentially offer mercs with larger, more advanced hardware that couldnt remain under the radar. Academi has been building a private airforce for example.
There are human trafficking stories with a lot of Ukrainian victims ever since 1991, with intensifications curiously in the years of US meddling and shock therapies.
That could be the point where pro US regimes start falling across Europe. We're already in the early stages of that happening now. Boots on the ground will kick that into overdrive.
The problem is falling and being replaced with what? Seems to be few leftist alternatives and the right is all blood and soil Nazis who'll eventually fall in line with America anyway.