Azov welcomed the decision, saying US military assistance will increase its ‘combat effectiveness’
US Lifts Ban on Arming and Training Ukraine’s Neo-Nazi Azov Brigade
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Andrei Biletsky, the neo-Nazi father of Azov
Biletsky is currently in the 3rd Assault Brigade.
Airman on hunger strike at White House over Gaza support
Herbert said that Bushnell’s message and actions resonated with him, but it was the silence from leadership that really propelled his desire to speak out.
“The response afterwards by the military, specifically my command and then our government – basically just not uttering a word, like not even saying his name or anything and just trying to sweep the whole situation under the rug – that’s what really infuriated me and gave me the resolve to come to DC,” he said.
TARGETING INTELLIGENCE — THE information used to conduct airstrikes and fire long-range artillery weapons — has played a central role in Israel’s siege of Gaza. A document obtained through the Freedom of Information Act suggests that the U.S. Air Force sent officers specializing in this exact form of intelligence to Israel in late November.
U.S. Deployed Air Targeting Team to Israel, Document Suggests (archived)
If true, this is disturbing! The Hague Invasion Act doesn’t cover the ICJ, from what I can tell. /s
U.S. Special Operations forces are not required to vet for past human rights violations by the foreign troops they arm and train as surrogates, newly disclosed documents show.
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The irregular warfare program has provided training to allied forces in countries that face a threat of invasion by larger neighbors, the senior Defense Department official said. The Washington Post has reported that an irregular warfare proxy program in Ukraine was terminated just before the Russian invasion, and that some officials want to restart it.
Rules for Pentagon Use of Proxy Forces Shed Light on a Shadowy War Power
The Leahy Law prohibits the U.S. military from providing training and equipment to foreign security forces that commit human rights abuses, but it does not apply to U.S. intelligence agencies. Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy said it should.
Why Congress Can’t Stop the CIA From Working With Forces That Commit Abuses
The Department of Justice in Washington has reportedly informed its Israeli counterpart that the FBI is investigating the death of Shireen Abu Akleh, six months after she was killed while covering a military raid in the northern occupied West Bank.
Will FBI probe into Abu Akleh killing be a cover-up?
Democrats in the House and Senate are going after a set of Pentagon authorities that have for years funded foreign military units across the world without proper oversight, lawmakers say.
Dems target loophole that lets US proxy forces skip human rights vetting
All of the ‘offending’ countries are in Africa! Nothing about Israel or Ukraine?! 🙄
Israel isn’t known for unbiased investigations of its own soldiers’ actions
Biden’s response to the killing of Palestinian-American journalist encourages more of the same
Related:
Why Americans Have a Special Responsibility in the Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh
Palestine asks ICC to investigate Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing
There is media buzz lately about an anti-Taliban insurgency struggling to be born in Afghanistan. A former Afghan army general, Sami Sadat, has sailed into view as the West’s favourite to don the mantle of leadership of a pan-Afghan “resistance” movement against repressive Taliban rule.
Afghanistan braces for new war
Related:
Mison Verdad – The paramilitarization of warfare through extremist mercenaries has served the United States to regionalize conflicts and make the approach to their consequences more diffuse.
NATO Trains and Finances Neo-Nazis and Jihadists in Ukraine (Archive)
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YouTube video: Ukraine: Nazism, denazification, banderovets, residential area artillery, and guns for everyone
Source: Graham Phillips on YouTube
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