
Foreign Fighters and the Ukraine Blowback — Lessons from Syria and Iraq
Rania Khalek Dispatches
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What Kind of People Didn't Go to Ukraine?
There was a few different kinds of people. who wanted to go and, you know, fight for freedom or some like abstract concept that I'm not sure they quite understood what they were going to do. One guy named Tristan Nettles had gone to Ukraine for a very specific purpose of raising awareness for a young woman who had gotten thrown in jail in Thailand on his account. He saw this Ukrainian foreign agent thing and all the media surrounding it as a way to like raise awareness of this young woman's plight. And he sent me some photos of him and some, a unit of guys that he started with all Western, all US and British veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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