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Mar 16 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
American Foreign Fighter Says He Was Injured In Russian Air Strike mtracey.substack.com/p/american-for…
Ukraine officials have been vague about the nationalities of those injured and killed by the recent Russian strike on the "international" military facility in Yavoriv, just 15 miles from the Polish border. I found at least one American who says he was there
Good question 👇
It's highly probable that there will be further US casualties, given how this conflict has been internationalized and glamorized. How do you think this will affect public opinion, as calls for deeper escalation continue to ramp up?
This gentleman from the US who was in the Russian bombing on March 13 got a tattoo of the Ukraine military logo on his hand before departing to fight in the newly-formed "Zelensky Battalion"

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Mar 14
Why Democrats Demand Collective Punishment Against Russian Civilians

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US officials at least used to pretend that sanctions were not intended to harm civilians. Now the Biden Administration openly admits that harming Russian civilians is their intent, and liberals -- being great such "humanitarians" -- vociferously cheer
In 2017, @RepMikeQuigley declared: "When you meet with any Russians, you’re meeting with Russian intelligence. And therefore Putin.” Now, he's demanding to incinerate Russia in WWIII. Which is the logical culmination of the dehumanization doctrine he and Dems have "normalized"
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Mar 13
US military loading vehicles tonight in Rzeszow, Poland around 60 miles from Ukraine border. Little or no information is being given about these operations
Convoy of trucks nearby. There is astoundingly little interest on the part of US media to report on what the US military is currently doing. If anything the media is deeply hostile toward such reporting
Here’s the perimeter of the new US installation
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Mar 13
Ukraine government accounts are posting graphic photos of what they're claiming is the dead body of a NY Times journalist. NYT just put out a statement saying he was not working for NYT. While the death is being attributed to Russia, this info is sourced only to Ukraine officials
Is it possible that this individual was killed by Russian troops, as claimed? Sure, but there's no independent corroboration of that. It's also possible he was killed by Ukraine forces, which includes many people who were just handed assault rifles with minimal training
Another person in the car said: "We crossed a checkpoint and they start shooting at us." Not sure how anyone can conclude that it was Russian forces who opened fire based on this description. The "checkpoint" here would presumably be controlled by Ukraine
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Mar 13
Russia just bombed a military facility around 15 miles from the Poland border. US "training" missions previously occurred there, and massive US weapons shipments are underway. Pentagon refuses to give details about the full extent of US logistical involvement in these shipments
Lviv governor says at least 35 people were killed in the bombing, but the nationality of the casualties is not specified. This facility would be a natural staging area for US materials shipped from nearby Rzeszow, Poland where there is currently a large US military presence
Ukraine Minister of Defense says "foreign instructors work here" -- present tense -- so we'll just have to await further clarification. Of course, he's using the incident to bolster calls for a No Fly Zone
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Mar 11
Poland Asks: Is the US Ready to "Close the Sky"? mtracey.substack.com/p/poland-asks-…
This is by far the most intense period of bipartisan pro-war conformity since 9/11 … far worse than Iraq Image
While politicians in the US radically ramp up their fight-to-the-death rhetoric about Ukraine, US soldiers deployed to neighboring Poland are just kind of casually ambling around, sight-seeing and hanging out. Which makes for an odd contrast Image
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Mar 10
The big agenda item of the Senate GOP today is to demand that Biden stop dithering and send the fighter jets immediately. If there's any positive development to emerge from this debacle, it's the final proof that the GOP is absolutely incorrigible and worthless on foreign policy
By the way, Josh Hawley signed the letter making this demand, so any "National Conservative" types still under the illusion that he's some kind of bold, orthodoxy-challenging thinker can drop the act
What? Yes he did. His signature is right above Hawley's. Cruz also signed. Not a great performance for National Conservatism Conference 2021 speakers.
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