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In reply to the discussion: My nephew is back in DC for a short visit from Kyiv [View all]DFW
(54,338 posts)46. They are being understandably cautious.
It would be, unfortunately, easy for Putin to give some of his own agents phony papers from some NATO country, get them taken on by the International brigades, and then, in the field, machine-gunning all the guys in their unit, and then calmly walking back to the Russian lines, congratulated for a job well done.
The Ukrainians are perfectly justified in wanting to clear any non-Ukrainian volunteer before sending him to the front lines.
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Assuming you can get documents and a visa (hell, I don't even know if they ask for one these days)
DFW
Nov 2022
#3
Being able to chat at length without giving anything personal or important away can be a
highplainsdem
Nov 2022
#22
How exciting and terrifying to be in the middle of all that. I wish him the best.
Srkdqltr
Nov 2022
#5
I'm glad he could make it home safely to be with his family. Kudos to him for the work he's
highplainsdem
Nov 2022
#21
You are never full of *it, and your links are always good. May he & all your multilingual, far-flung
Hekate
Nov 2022
#31
Great full post, again. And we apologize for sometimes being chumps and not owning up to our mistake
erronis
Nov 2022
#33