Episode 36 - Volunteering to Fight in the Donbass Ft. Russianwithoutbs

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4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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On this episode Joe talks to @russiawithoutbs a writer, army veteran, and the closest thing to an expert on the Donbas War that would come and hang out with us. He tells us the story about the truth of volunteering to fight in Ukraine, the inefficiency of the Ukrainian Army, and the impact of propaganda in a regional conflict. Follow him at @russiawithoutthebs Donate to his patreon so he can create more content: https://www.patreon.com/russiawithoutbs Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Buy some merch: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store follow us on twitter @lions_by

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0:00.0	Shell the man the opera in it is the world. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Lines
0:21.4	by Donkeys podcast I am Joe and with me today is Jim Colvpack
0:29.3	He is known on Twitter as Russia without bullshit or without BS, U.S. Army veteran, and the closest thing
0:36.0	to an expert on the Don Boss war in Ukraine that would talk to me.
0:40.1	So that's nice.
0:41.1	Jim, how you doing?
0:42.1	I'm doing all right. So that's nice. Jim, how you doing?
0:42.6	I'm doing all right.
0:45.4	So a little background on this episode
0:47.9	and why we're doing it is I originally
0:50.2	thought of a beginner's primer for Western ears on the Donbos War and I
0:56.1	guess we could still do that but then Jim told me that he was one of I don't
1:01.6	know probably hundreds or thousands of people who planned to go and
1:06.2	volunteer to fight for Ukraine.
1:08.9	And I decided that was a significantly more interesting story. How many people do you think
1:15.9	like expats or diaspora ran back to Ukraine to fight? Oh I could tell you I mean the
1:22.4	numbers that gave there are way too high.
1:26.4	In terms of people that actually volunteered and got a contract and did not get out under, let's say, you know, not so great circumstances.
1:38.6	It's very, very small.
1:40.4	And actually a lot of this I learned after my attempt to join I learned from
1:44.2	people who are sort of connected and are familiar with these stories it's really
1:48.0	only a handful of people we're talking about Westerners and if you hear I can say this, I'm not going to single anyone out, but if you hear stories
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