If you want to go beyond US pilots might as well include more
He has a very special subset of Russian spiritual and moral values!
Remember those idiot parents who moved from Canada to Putin’s "paradise?
traditional Russian spiritual and moral values
is probably also code for “mercenaries”.
Jones is just excited that he found a way to escape his debts and still make money spreading his poison. He hasn’t yet discovered the part about the gangsters who run Russia wetting their beaks in his earnings until he’s left with a pittance.
There are also these “premature anti-fascists” (as the McCarthyites would have characterised them):
In all of these cases, the spirit when confronted with fascism at home or abroad is one each of ut should emulate in our own way: No pasarán!
To pull it back to Ukraine, there is a significant number of Colombians signing up for service with Ukraine forces (some through conviction, some through financial straits).
Lukashenko is a lot of things, but completely stupid isn’t one of them. This way he gets to show off to Putin while, at the same time, knowingly lining up the equipment for immediate destruction by short-range weapons. He’s not going to fight, and is letting and NATO know it.
… how amusing
I suspect the Russian commanders are shitting their pants right now, as the Ukrainian army may be talking about a buffer zone but the possibility of being kettled in now looms over them. Not from Kursk, mind, but the advances into Russia will raise the spectre of Ukrainian special forces moving freely behind their lines and cutting off supplies.
Also worth comparing and contrasting is how Ukraine is following the Geneva conventions when it comes to handling prisoners of war, or at least making a big show of it to visiting journalists (no link, this is based on something I saw last night on German television). By broadcasting how humane the prisoners are being handled, it makes surrendering more attractive, helps overcome the shame of surrender many stated on camera, especially when contrasted with the beatings and neglect they received from their own commanders.