Tag: French Foreign Legion

« Fascist Battalion »: French neo-Nazis are fighting in Ukraine – Raphael Schmeller, Berliner Zeitung

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Featuring SS symbols and swastika tattoos, a unit of French neo-Nazis is reportedly recruiting soldiers to fight alongside the Ukrainian army

« Fascist Battalion »: French neo-Nazis are fighting in Ukraine – Raphael Schmeller, Berliner Zeitung

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Legion Pirates Reconnaissance Group

Commando Pirates is a unit of Revanche International as part of the Revanche Tactical group.

The group was officially formed in 2023 by French volunteers with affiliations to the Centuria movement in Ukraine. The fighters had ideological motivations similar to the movement, and found themselves initially in the ranks of the Revanche Tactical Group.

At some point in late 2023, the members of the group transferred to the ranks of the 3rd Assault Brigade, where they served and fought with the brigade during the fall of Avdiivka in early 2024 to help evacuate Ukrainian forces from the city. It was formerly known as the Brennus Platoon.

In June 2025, the unit officially joined Revanche International as the Reconnaissance Group “Aggressive” as a squad-sized formation.

In late September 2025, the unit was renamed Commando Pirates.

US backed ethnic cleansing of Serbs, top diplomat secretly told Croat leader

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The ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of Serbs by a US-backed Croatian leader was premeditated, according to newly-uncovered files revealing the operation’s planning. After the bloodshed subsided, Richard Holbrooke, a top US diplomat, assured him: “We said publicly… that we were concerned

US backed ethnic cleansing of Serbs, top diplomat secretly told Croat leader

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Breakup of Yugoslavia

The Antiwar Movement We Are Supposed to Forget

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Visualize the movement against the Vietnam War. What do you see? Hippies with daisies in their long, unwashed hair yelling “Baby killers!” as they spit on clean-cut, bemedaled veterans just back from Vietnam? College students in tattered jeans (their pockets bulging with credit cards) staging a sit-in to avoid the draft? A mob of chanting demonstrators burning an American flag (maybe with a bra or two thrown in)? That’s what we’re supposed to see, and that’s what Americans today probably do see — if they visualize the antiwar movement at all.

The Antiwar Movement We Are Supposed to Forget

US to cut military presence in Niger + Pentagon lied to Congress

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The Pentagon reportedly plans to pull out some of its troops from the African country

The US has begun “repositioning” the troops it has in Niger and plans to cut their number “nearly in half” over the next several weeks, Politico reported on Friday citing two Defense Department officials.

US to cut military presence in Niger

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Pentagon Misled Congress About U.S. Bases in Africa

Rand Paul: Why do we still have troops in Niger?

Wagner Chief Denies Claims That He Offered Ukraine Russian Troop Positions + What are we to Make of Prigozhin and the Wagner Group?

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Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Russian mercenary group Wagner, dismissed claims made by The Washington Post that he offered Ukraine Russian troop positions in exchange for a Ukrainian withdrawal from Bakhmut, calling the report “laughable.”

Wagner Chief Denies Claims That He Offered Ukraine Russian Troop Positions

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What are we to Make of Prigozhin and the Wagner Group?

UN high court finds US seizure of Iranian assets violated treaty + More

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In 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered nearly $2 billion in assets of Iran’s state bank, frozen in the U.S., to be paid as compensation to relatives of victims of attacks linked to Iran.

UN high court finds US seizure of Iranian assets violated treaty

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International Court of Justice orders US to compensate Iran for frozen assets

ICJ judgments are legally binding, however, the court has no means of enforcing them. Previously, both the US and Iran have ignored the court’s judgments.

US Hails ICJ Ruling On Iran Assets As ‘Major Victory’

“The court’s decision today rejected the vast majority of Iran’s case, including notably Iran’s claims on behalf of Bank Markazi,” said acting legal adviser Rich Visek of the US State Department.

Is the U.S. and NATO Running Another Operation Gladio in Europe?

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Part Two of a Three-Part CAM Series on Mercenaries and Clandestine Operations in Ukraine

[In Part Two of this three-part series on foreign mercenary fighters in Ukraine, (see Part 1) the nexus between mercenaries with experience in Syria, Ukraine and U.S.-EU-NATO armed forces becomes more apparent. This second part of the investigation looks at Shaun Pinner, Alexander Tobiassen, John Harding, Sjoerd Heeger, Craig Lang and Ben Fischer.—Editors]

Is the U.S. and NATO Running Another Operation Gladio in Europe?

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