Ukraine: Fighting for Freedom and Democracy for us all? Hardly. It can be regarded as russia-lite, with 70 percent of the corruption, fascism, poverty and skulduggery.
"Desperate for money and men, Ukraine is using violent press gangs to snatch soldiers from the streets"
For those that will scoff that it's the Daily Mail, check out the authors credentials and pro Ukrainian articles all over the place. In fact he ends his piece with the usual canard that H̶i̶t̶l̶e̶r̶ Putin will attack the west after Ukraine.
Ukraine is once more throwing up things I thought existed only in history books and novels: one of them is the press gang. In its 17th- and 18th-century heyday in Britain, men would be grabbed by mobs of sailors and bundled on to ships to fight the country’s wars
But the supply of Western weapons has been both tardy and incomplete. Friends who were desperate to join up in February 2022 now talk about refusing to die in ‘Zelensky’s war’. Friends at the front tell them: ‘Don’t bother coming here, it’s chaos. ‘How many more of our men will die?’ is the question being asked now. ‘And for what?’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...RIKARAKOS.html