Thread by @GaudetteRob

🔥Mutiny!

Crimean resistance group Atesh reports Cuban 🇨🇺 mercenaries killed their Russian commander due to “constant humiliation, beatings, and nonpayment of wages” in Donetsk.

Russia is the colonizer it says 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 are.

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Russia has recruited 10,000s impoverished men from India, Ghana, Cameroon, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Jordan, Iraq, China, Serbia, France, and other countries by promising $2,000/month.

☠️ Their survival is measured in hours, not days.

There’s an endless supply.

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In Cuba, Russia uses Facebook ads (@jason_kint follows Meta and its abuses closely) to lure men to the front.

The U.S. could do more by investigating @Meta for allowing mercenary recruitment.

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According the National Resistance Center of Ukraine, Russia recruits foreign mercenaries because it’s cheaper and causes less domestic upheaval.

The recruits are used in meat wave attacks. But it gets better!

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Russia is destabilizing Africa, especially in the Sahel and Central African Republic, by creating an “Africa Corps.”

The goal? Destabilizing and outcompeting the West. Russia supports dictators, exploits natural and human resources, and weaponizes migration against the EU.

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Back to foreign mercenaries caught fighting for Russia in Ukraine.

A legal nightmare: if they become POWs, 🇺🇦 must treat them as such under the Geneva Conventions. It’s really hard to prove, under international law, that they’re mercenaries.

So, they can’t be prosecuted.

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Finally, a logistical nightmare.

The mercenary “POWs” don’t want to go back home, where they could face prosecution. Ukraine has to take care of them because it’s really resource-intensive to prove they’re mercenaries. And the home countries might not take them.

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The sooner Russia is crushed on the battlefields in Ukraine, the sooner this whole ecosystem collapses.

We must send Ukraine what it needs to win! I hope there will be another massive aid bill soon after the election.

Fin!

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