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UPDATE: ‘Do not exaggerate importance of America’s equivalent to Wagner Group PMC’ says Russia
RUSSIA’S Press Secretary to the President, Dmitry Peskov, spoke on Thursday, February 2, about the news that the Mozart Group, America’s answer to Russia’s Wagner Group – Putin’s network of mercenaries and de facto private army – was apparently ‘leaving’ Ukraine and said not to exaggerate the PMC’s significance.
UPDATE: ‘Do not exaggerate importance of America’s equivalent to Wagner Group PMC’ says Russia
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Hard Drinking and Murky Finances: How an American Veterans Group Imploded in Ukraine
Don’t Be So Quick To Listen To America’s Retired Generals On Ukraine
Don’t Be So Quick to Listen To America’s Retired Generals on Ukraine: Americans have always loved military leaders, especially generals; the 1970 movie Patton, about the life of the United States’ greatest World War II commander, is still popular in America. When the current crop of active and retired generals speak today, it is unsurprising that most in our country reflexively accept what they say at face value. Especially as their assessments and advice relate to American vital national interests in the Russia-Ukraine War, however, such trust should be reassessed.
Don’t Be So Quick To Listen To America’s Retired Generals On Ukraine
He doesn’t think that we’re in a proxy war with Russia?!
Related:
U.S. Veterans in Ukraine Are Fighting Each Other in Court
U.S. Veterans in Ukraine Are Fighting Each Other in Court (archived)
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YouTube: Interview With the Head of the Mozart Group and Connoisseur of Fine Whiskey Andrew Milburn (Rumble)
He looks like he needs a drink! He keeps squirming! *snicker*
[2008] Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand
In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantánamo Bay. The detention center had just been branded “the gulag of our times” by Amnesty International, there were new allegations of abuse from United Nations human rights experts and calls were mounting for its closure.
Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand
Chris Hedges “The Greatest Evil is War”
Chris Hedges returned to The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY on October 21, 2022 to speak on the subject of his latest book, titled “The Greatest Evil is War” (Seven Stories Press). This unflinching indictment of the horror and obscenity of war draws from experience and interviews for a book that looks at the hidden costs of war, what it does to individuals, families, communities, and nations.
Chris Hedges “The Greatest Evil is War” via MediaSanctuary
I’m surprised that he agrees with sanctions, even though they only hurt civilians?!
Related:
Chris Hedges: Writing on War and Living in a World from Hell
Defying Pentagon Secrecy, Reporting Exposes Retired US Generals on Saudi Payroll
“The government fought us for two years to keep these records a secret,” said one Washington Post journalist. “We sued, and won.”
Defying Pentagon Secrecy, Reporting Exposes Retired US Generals on Saudi Payroll
WaPo article:
Retired US generals, admirals take top jobs with Saudi crown prince, other foreign governments (archived)
NRCC pulls ads for Majewski after reports he didn’t actually serve in Afghanistan after 9/11
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is scrapping $1 million in scheduled TV ads for GOP congressional candidate J.R. Majewski after military records reportedly revealed he was never stationed in Afghanistan, despite claiming to have served there after the 9/11 terrorist attack.
NRCC pulls ads for Majewski after reports he didn’t actually serve in Afghanistan after 9/11
H/T: MeidasTouch
Deseret News: Suicide missions, neo-Nazis and life inside Ukraine’s foreign legion
President Zelenskyy’s call for foreign fighters has attracted criminals and extremists, to the dismay of the well-intentioned
Suicide missions, neo-Nazis and life inside Ukraine’s foreign legion (archived)
Previously:
DW: Ukraine foreign fighters accuse commander of abuses
From the April 14, 1969 issue of New York Magazine: The Revolt of the White Lower Middle Class
The Revolt of the White Lower Middle Class
The working-class white man is actually in revolt against taxes, joyless work, the double standards and short memories of professional politicians, hypocrisy and what he considers the debasement of the American dream.
Pete Hamill
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 
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