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Mar 15 39 tweets 12 min read
(1) Welcome to the WTF "The Grand Western Alliance of BRAVE mercenaries from the West" Special Edition #RaamWTF

It took only 18 hrs for this French dude who went to Ukraine as a foreign mercenary to escape fm Lviv to Sweden without packing his personal

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(2) belongings, after their training ground was hit by Russian forces on Monday

Meet Jake Priday, British teacher from Cardiff, aged 25, 6’3” in height, whose Ukrainian adventure lasted 9 hrs - he's been in the British army for 6 years in Estonia, Kenya & Iraqi Kurdistan, where
(3) he helped train local militias in 2017 - his goal was to give Ukrainians basic medical training

he was packed with a bunch of other heroes-in-waiting, incl a Belarusian anarchist & a Bulgarian bouncer & neo-Nazi from London: “My plan is to kill as many Russians as I can”
(4) Jake thought he might be sent to a refugee camp to help the wounded & teach basic first aid, BUT co-ordinators explained that volunteers were expected to fight ON THE FRONTLINE after 5-7 days’ training
(5) details of the 5-7 days' training
(6) Signs emerged that they could be toast as soon as a contract was pulled out after the 1st breakfast - they were told to sign a contract stipulating that they would be paid US$230 a month & would have to remain in the Ukrainian foreign legion for the duration of the war
(7) PLUS: the most disturbing clause of the contract: they would be put under the same obligations as all Ukrainian men: under martial law declared by Zelensky on 24/2/2022 - no man aged 18-60 is allowed to leave, which means people might lose their jobs or houses in the West
(8) the contract also binds volunteers to serve for "an indefinite length of time" - none of these volunteers interviewed had been told about these terms before they crossed into Ukraine - in practice, those who no longer wished to fight could apply for a discharge & between 20
(9) & 30 volunteers have already been allowed to leave after signing on - the Ukrainian ministry of defence denied that the contract requires volunteers to sign on indefinitely but refused to share a copy

Jake ended up persuading 20 other volunteers not to sign
(10) Jake's dream of a war hero was shattered as once he refused to sign, he was immediately asked to leave the barracks
(11) a 21-year-old from Britain with no military experience who has been working dead-end jobs for years flew to Poland without telling his parents - Jake felt like the man was signing his “death warrant” but this youngster did leave Ukraine afterwards
(12) Yet Western 'volunteers" are still flocking to fight in Ukraine: French foreign legionnaires, Baltic ex-servicemen & American gun-nuts

a bulked-up former pilot from Louisiana who did 4 tours in Afghanistan sold his pick-up truck to fund his trip: “I’m just here to shoot”
(13) others: Balkan fighters in cargo pants; German hipsters-turned-gonzo humanitarians; Mormons from Utah, & a middle-aged Norwegian woman determined to ease the burden on Ukrainian mothers & take up a Kalashnikov "in the spirit of solidarity"
(14) another: a a Lithuanian volunteer seasoned in anti-tank warfare with a tattoo of a crusader on horseback across his chest

economist.com/1843/2022/03/1…
(15) On the 15-hour grand adventure of the French dude in (1), in Chinese:

这个到乌克兰参加外国雇佣军的法国🇫🇷籍士兵仅仅花了18个小时,就从利沃夫一路逃到了瑞典🇸🇪!
你没听错,劫后余生的他真的一骑绝尘地遁了。
这个原本打算在乌克兰🇺🇦战场扬名立万的法国🇫🇷人名叫米凯尔,
(16) 在3月13日凌晨俄军导弹袭击雅沃洛夫斯基训练场的时候,他居然被吓哭了!
你们没听错,这家伙被吓哭了。
然后,连个人用品都没来得及收拾的时间都没有,他拔腿就跑越过边境逃到了波兰🇵🇱,然后又逃到了瑞典🇸🇪!
🍷🍷这个举白旗的速度,不愧是法国人。
在此前他发布的一段视频中.......
他一边跑,
(17) 一边哭丧着说: “这里的基地刚刚被摧毁,我们要离开这里。死者中有我的朋友,所以我们要逃离这里。基地被摧毁了,我需要振作起来。那里也是被毁的基地,他们轰炸了那里。我们与乌克兰签订雇佣合同的基地刚刚被摧毁。我们有几十个人,就剩下我了。这个基地有数百名士兵,美国人。”
(18) On the 15-hour grand adventure of the French dude in (1), in Chinese:

這個到烏克蘭參加外國僱傭軍的法國🇫🇷籍士兵僅僅花了18個小時,就從利沃夫一路逃到了瑞典🇸🇪!
你沒聽錯,劫後餘生的他真的一騎絕塵地遁了。
這個原本打算在烏克蘭🇺🇦戰場揚名立萬的法國🇫🇷人名叫米凱爾,
(19) 在3月13日凌晨俄軍導彈襲擊雅沃洛夫斯基訓練場的時候,他居然被嚇哭了!
你們沒聽錯,這傢伙被嚇哭了。
然後,連個人用品都沒來得及收拾的時間都沒有,他拔腿就跑越過邊境逃到了波蘭🇵🇱,然後又逃到了瑞典🇸🇪!
🍷🍷這個舉白旗的速度,不愧是法國人。
在此前他發布的一段視頻中.......
他一邊跑,
(20) 一邊哭喪著說: “這裡的基地剛剛被摧毀,我們要離開這裡。死者中有我的朋友,所以我們要逃離這裡。基地被摧毀了,我需要振作起來。那裡也是被毀的基地,他們轟炸了那裡。我們與烏克蘭簽訂僱傭合同的基地剛剛被摧毀。我們有幾十個人,就剩下我了。這個基地有數百名士兵,美國人。”
(21) Also Meet Ben Spann from Warwickshire in the UK, aged 36, who did not tell his wife or teenage son that he was going to Ukraine although he has never served in the military
(22) Ben spent 5 days in a "safe house" with 4 ex-British soldiers, & had a gun pointed at his head after the house was searched by a "Ukrainian SWAT team"

Ben, who runs an anti-knife crime charity & has grown cannabis, admits his Ukraine adventure was "an absolute nightmare"
(23) Ben was not impressed with the safe house.... calling it "a crack den in England", & didn't appreciate the 10 members of a Ukrainian SWAT team pointing AK-47s at their head in the safe house
(24) Ben's son was doubting whether he even cared about him, why he was doing this

he ended up travelling back to the Polish border where hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees have fled to
(25) The official line of the UK regime
(26) Hey yo, but Ben would still go back one day - that's "probably the ego side of him"
(27) Ukraine: Briton who travelled to warzone to join military fight against Russia leaves over 'suicide mission' fears

news.sky.com/story/ukraine-…
(28)
(29) Almost 40% of Americans polled by Quinnipiac University said they would rather flee than defend the US, BUT nearly 8 in 10 support U.S. Military Response "if Putin attacks a NATO country"

7 March 2022

poll.qu.edu/poll-release?r…
(31) Video at link: A lethal weapon from the UK - a 60-year-old grandpa - wanting to join as a "volunteer" to fight in Ukraine

news.sky.com/video/ukraine-…
(35) The lads' dream....
(36) The lads' previous "training"

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