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Ukraine was a magnet for foreign fighters. After 2 bruising years, many are disillusioned or dead.
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I said at the beginning of this war that I was afraid the conflict would be like a Unite the Right but for the whole of europe, an opportunity for fascist elements to rally together, and in this case be armed and trained alongside each other and gain combat experience, and then return to their countries ready to form fascist cells locally
Did it end up that they just mostly died or were maimed or defeated? Guess it depends how many fled
I was also afraid of this, but honestly it probably produced a lot less than you might suspect. A lot of these guys are dead and many of them left after the initial bombing of the Reddit brigade pretty early in the war. The ones that have stuck it out are guys who already had military experience. I’m sure there are guys who really cut their teeth in Ukraine, but it’s probably not as many as one would think imho. Ukraine in a way is probably the death of the over abundance of special operations guys in the west.
It added the one thing that prevented Unite The Right from being good: lots of inbound airstrikes and artillery