G'day legends, We've been trying to make this work now for a number of months and last night we got the chance! Thankyou again mate, I really appreciate your time and openness with me! Episode is also on Spotify if that is better for you! You make this possible, to The Support Channel directly: www.patreon.com/willybeatingcancer www.paypal.me/MWilliams745
If you listen to him he admits the war is over. He admits he never engaged the Russians face to face. He admits that "The Great and Mighty Warrior King of Mother Russia, Vladimir Putin" has found the Super Weapon, the drone, to end this war by spring. Great, great interview Willy OAM, like a horse to water you let him spill his guts on the real truth and just let him lap up the water. I hope he does go home and gets a wife and has children. Will send you a $1,000 bucks. Please give him $500 to go home and start a family! God bless you Willy!!!
By the way, even though I am "The Poorest of the Poor, and Weakest of the Weak", as an a American, I know you (Willy) are a intersection among both the Ukrainian and Russian armies. Therefore just invoke my signature names of "The Hi-Jacker" or "The Reality Changer" ( 1 Cor. 1:26-29 ) and when it comes to the ears of "The Great and Mighty Warrior King of Mother Russia, Vladimir Putin" he will pay the bill. Hell make it $2,000 dollars. Putin is a man of honor and always pays. Just invoke my name and you will get paid. The interviewer gets half--$1,000 bucks to leave Ukraine and start a family---that's the deal. Just a great great interview!!!
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 01:38 😎 The interviewee joined the US Marine Corps and desired more adventure after completing his service. 03:41 🌍 He decided to go to Ukraine and fight for three years due to historical and cultural resonance. 08:46 🤔 Attitudes of foreign fighters have shifted from serious commitment to seeking fame and Hollywood-style action. 11:20 💰 Some foreigners exploit the conflict for personal gain, leading to negative perceptions among Ukrainians. 13:20 🚀 Misconceptions exist about the nature of the conflict, with people imagining Ukraine as one continuous battlefield. 14:31 👀 Despite being in conflict areas, the interviewee has never actually seen Russian soldiers on the front lines. 17:02 👥 Russians are exposed to state-controlled media, affecting their perceptions of the war and Ukraine. 18:15 😕 Attitudes towards the Russian population vary, but there's hope for change among the younger generation. 20:07 🙌 Some foreigners initially brought knowledge, eagerness to learn, and a sense of unity to Ukrainian units. 21:04 😠 A growing "main character syndrome" among foreigners involves unrealistic expectations, arrogance, and risks. 22:01 🤯 Disregard for warnings and failure to adapt to local conditions can result in unnecessary casualties. 23:02 💸 Monetization of war-related content on social media can lead to exploitation and a loss of genuine commitment. 23:43 😮 Foreign volunteers often engage in superficial humanitarian activities, snapping selfies and showing minimal commitment. 24:40 🌊 After flooding in certain areas, many volunteers arrived to help, but some villages remained neglected and received no assistance for months. 26:03 💰 Money meant for humanitarian efforts sometimes gets diverted to other activities, raising questions about the effectiveness of aid. 27:53 😷 Some foreign individuals come to Ukraine, seemingly for noble reasons, but end up prioritizing self-promotion and personal agendas. 29:21 🤝 Constructive criticism is essential, but some individuals use online platforms to promote distorted views of Ukraine for personal gain. 30:50 🇺🇦 Ukraine's societal values are often misunderstood by foreigners who promote their own ideologies without a proper understanding of the country. 32:30 🧐 Some foreigners who enter Ukrainian units can be disruptive, promoting divisive agendas and seeking personal attention. 34:38 💻 Online presence and popularity have become a form of currency, influencing behaviors and actions to gain followers and likes. 35:59 🌍 Some individuals prioritize online approval over real-life connections, even if their online persona contradicts their true self. 38:00 ⚖️ Some foreign fighters criticize Ukrainians in private but publicly praise the country to attract followers and donations. 39:41 🏴 Different units within the Ukrainian military can vary significantly in terms of corruption and professionalism. 41:47 🕊️ Some foreign fighters respect the principles of humane treatment even towards Russian prisoners of war, emphasizing the importance of preserving lives. 43:50 🔍 Analyzing and understanding the capabilities of the enemy, regardless of their equipment, is crucial in warfare. 47:14 🔄 Simplistic stereotypes about enemy soldiers hinder a comprehensive assessment of the situation and the variety of adversaries in the field. 48:37 🎙️ Interviewer values candidness and seeks firsthand information from foreign soldiers. 49:20 🚀 Ukraine needs more training, supplies, ammunition, and drones for better results on the front line. 50:15 🛡️ Ukrainian units should be proactive rather than reactive; need to step up their response to threats. 51:02 🪖 Cheap drones have revolutionized warfare; their potential for damage is significant. 52:14 ⚙️ Ukraine should establish a factory or workshop to produce more drones for defense. 56:10 🏢 Old-school military life in barracks fosters camaraderie and better soldier training. 57:53 📝 Cross-training and versatility in soldier skills improve overall readiness and capabilities. 01:00:24 🔀 Bureaucracy in larger military organizations hampers cross-training and adaptability. 01:01:51 🤝 The interviewee offers continued availability for discussion and sharing perspectives. Made with HARPA AI
He have never seen Russians because he have never been close to the front line. In summer months, when the grass is 2 meters tall, average engagement distance is 25-50 meters, anyone who part takes in any active small arms combat sees opposing forces regularly.
Yup, also the bs about being in Odessa and not seeing a Russian, everyone speaks Russian there lol. Right Sector question about nazism he dodges as well. We have internet we can see what Right Sector is about.
The greatest issue with western observers of this conflict that they believe Russians only listen to Russian propaganda. Lots of people in Russia speak English and for a lot of people it was Western propaganda that turned pro-western Russians away (because it was disgustingly oversimplified to address public with low attention span and ofc for propaganda reasons). Today most people in Russia see this conflict as a geopolitical battle, where Ukraine is just a coin which has been flipped throughout the history.
This soldier is just another example of an individual who has swallowed western propaganda and then has been sucked in by Ukrainian propaganda. He talks about Ukrainians who believe Russian propaganda ignoring the fact that the rest of Ukraine has been fed a steady diet by their leaders of western propaganda. Another well intentioned grunt.
Russia is recruiting Gurkhas for Wagner and giving them citizenship if they can speak either English or Russian. They are obviously confident that somebody who speaks English can cope ib Russia.
Of course it's interesting listening to soldiers like this. But as I listen, it occurs to me he's no better informed on the politics and the history and the controversial aspects than the average punter. And why would he be? He mixes with people who've picked a side and they all confirm each others assumptions and world view. The only real value in soldier interviews is their battle stories and sense of the current frontline morale.
Yeah hearing some of these 'soldiers' talk about history & which side is right/wrong is cringe🤐 As you said, the only real value is hearing about their tales on the battlefield.
@@IAMJEFFREY-cw9nshalf the video felt like propaganda spill tbh. Blaming foreign fighters constantly for problems rather than finding it strange theres so many that have had a terrible experience with leadership. Its like listening to an NCO in the US pretend its not their fault retention is low but every soldier will tell u shit leadership is a major reason for leaving and not staying.
@@Robloxdude260 Did you see Willy's interview with Soldier X not too long ago? He was blaming his superiors the whole time. Yeah bad leadership leads to poor results but some of these guys are there for the thrill of it and of course the money. A true mercenary will fight for whoever pays him good coin though Soldier X told Willy that he hasn't been paid a cent.
@@IAMJEFFREY-cw9ns big truuuue. However the guy in the video didnt once point the blame to any bad leadership and always foreign volunteers. Dudes just willfully ignorant or a big ass liar because hes been there for so long
As eyes on the ground he's fascinating to listen to. I heard a lot of things that parallel corruption during the Vietnam War except with a modern dimension. Everything he said was useless if overlaid upon the political theater. The power brokers running the Ukraine effort from the Washington DC elite to British clubs and the rooms of NATO are just disgusting and ignorant of the situation.
Libya was ranked 35th in the world for prosperity, it was the richest country in Africa. Libyia own no money to any country or bank. Libyia had free medical for everyone, they had free education for everyone, they had 144 tons have gold. THAT'S WHAT NATO DESTROYED that's why the free world supports Russia !
Talks about how the russians dehumanise people, next sentence he states how he looks at russian speaking ukrainians as robots and zombies. You couldn't write it 😂
All of these sudden overnight "experts" that just sprang up all over youtube right at the beginning of last year are just opportunistic vultures that will say anything or back up anything that the mainstream says and many of them came from dubious origins and probably get zog money behind the scenes to pump out endless propaganda and the woke zog owned TH-cam Al Gore Rythem favors them heavily also.
That’s not what he said He said Russians in Russia are robots and zombies Russian speakers in Ukraine aren’t demonised Maybe your comprehension skills need reeducation
@@lillibitjohnson7293 You mean the Ukrainians who identify as Russians? Thats what this whole war was about in the 1st place dumb dumb. Cope more tho feel free, maybe go watch some CNN ("Ukraine is approaching the outskirts of moscow" 🤣)
"Corruption has never been seen in Ukraine". Two seconds later: "Corruption has definitely been seen in Ukraine first hand by my friends, and lots of it". I can't believe a thing this guy says. He constantly contradicts himself.
Русские всё видят и всё читают, на английском, русском и украинском, побольше вас. То что мы пишем комментарии на английском не значит что мы из Огайо.
It’s easier for us ignorant westerners to assume those who disagree with us only do so because they are brainwashed and uninformed. The irony is that we are by far the most propagandized population and we largely don’t realize it because the facade of separation between our media and the state. Nearly all the Russians I’ve heard from are well informed on this conflict.
Dude tryed to join YPG but was afraid that we would have to fight Turkie and he would be marked as terrorist. Went to Ukraine as a mercenary 3 years ago - thus 1.5 years before Russian invasion. Whom did he fight? 3(!) years of shelling and he never seen a russian BUT every atrocity like missing men accounted to russians. What russians do it James Bond/Hitman style? Or is there an organisation that has accounts of terrorism (Dugina, Tatarskiy), arrests (Gonzalo Lira), killing of traitors and fake stories (Ghost of Kyev, defence of Snake Island). I understand that dude was paid by Ukraine for three years he has to beleive UA stories out of convinience. Yeah russians have access to foreign media and we do not watch our TV but then you compare reality and material provided by media on both sides... Listening to west propaganda I am more and more inclined to beleive russian state TV.
The West wasn’t like what it is now 30 years. I have to counter brainwash my kids for I don’t want them to take in the shit they hear in schools and on TV. I never thought it would be like this when I first arrived in Australia. Average citizens in Australia or indeed the West are by and large very naive and believe the government propaganda without critical thinking.
The West banned Russian news sources for fear their population would see some truth. Most Westerners are too stupid to see that they live in a very controlled society.....roll up you sleeves for a jab or lose your job. Goes right over their heads
He says he never saw combat or Russians but states as fact that they commit war crimes. There are some pretty nasty and hard to watch videos, from just before the conflict and just after it started, of Ukrainian soldiers torturing and killing Russians whom had been captured. Sh!t there were even videos of crucifixions posted. Bottom line both sides have committed these acts.
I caught that too. Jeez Louis, are we ever gonna get the real account of anything???. The propaganda dripping from the guy, just wowwww and he sounds so believable.
Brain dead take, yes you can see results of actions without seen the action itself. Also you can see videos of executions that circulated telegram for some time.
me to...every bar has a Bentley or Ferrari parked infront... and at night they drive 100 miles per hour in city centre...right infront of police, wich does nothing...😂😂😂
I find it hard to believe this man. He doesn't talk like a soldier. He sounds more like a Reservist just back from summer training. I'm glad you interviewed him Willy.
He says Russian believe their Mainstream ......Not all. Some listen to Western Media thats also Propaganda for everything anti Russia . Its Just that Russian are patriotic.
A funny guy, loves Ukrainian history He is in Odessa and doesn't know what happened on May 2, 2014. He did not see the Russian, it is clear that he saw them so that he would not be alive. Russians love foreign mercenaries in Ukraine, they simply adore them.
There was various volunteers bridgades before the full invasion , the Georgian Legion is quite literally the unit MOST foreigners sign up for due to the fact most of the officers and commanders speak the various languages of Europe and can translate for their Ukrainian mates
That seems to be backed up by the prominence of Azov in the Mariupol conflict and the admission by the young American Willy interviewed around a year ago who was inserted into Azov.
@@ApocalypsesDawnNot only But the Money is a good Sidestory . Also some get Chiks. The Thing is : Not all of them are only coming there to protect Ukraine . Its the Things around that make them come. Also the thrill
Ok found it. In full context: “It is very simple,” Polish President Andrzej Duda told me last week. “Right now, Russian imperialism can be stopped cheaply, because American soldiers are not dying.” But if we don’t put a halt to Russian aggression now, “there will be a very high price to be paid.” Basically if Russians won't be stopeed now they will rebuild their army and attack Baltic countries (including Poland) which will be a much bigger war involving Nato (possibly WW3) and Ukraine. They won't win war without cutting the supply chain. Duda is pushing US to give Ukraine resources that would allow to win the war and not just "survive". That talk was addressed to Americans imagination and Duda is not that good in English.
The thing is, as i heard about one "volunteer" "They looked exactly like myself, and they being bombed there" European and americans have zero sympathy for arabs and others, well, there not enough sympathy to get involved
@@ЕвгенийПершин-е1ь But that's also exactly the other way around - Arabs and others don't give a single sh.t about westerners (Chinese don't give a damn about Arabs and westerners, etc). We are all very tribal, no matter were we come from.
As a russian, i'll say that most russian people dont even watch TV these days, it's mostly older generations, and even then, you can find opposing channels that challenge governments agenda and give different opinions on stuff, so it's not THAT bad as in like North Korea or whatever. You don't even need VPN to get access to most western media. This fighter guy calls us zombies, robots and idiots that only watch russian propaganda, so be it. Actually tho, i was pro-Ukraine and anti-Russia for years just because of western media i was watching and because of our own opposition forces, and despite the fact that my relatives got bombed there in Donbass by Ukraine's side in 2017, i was still blinded, was going to rallies and screaming libtard shit. My opinion started to change because of channels like this one, because of unbiased reports, stories and many interesting info that challenged my world views, not because of our "braindead russian propaganda" that only gave an oversimplified convenient picture. That's why i decided to work with Donbass refugees in Crimea. Now i fully support both, freedom fighters of Donbass that lost their democratic rights after 2014, as well as will of Crimean people that used international law of self determination of people. I believe that people of Ukraine were fooled, brainwashed and used by the West and i believe that they should be brought back to senses. (funny how this conclusion i got from watching anything but russian propaganda, actually falls in line with our russian propaganda)
Go in public tell about your support for Ukraine XD you would have been in jail if you opened your mouth. Silly slav or should I say slave since it means the same thing.
I've always voted Democrat, I've always believed they were the best on balance but after impeachment number 4 I realised that Donald Trump is the saviour of America and Fox News is actually the truth. lol
Western elite definitely begged for the war since 20 years ago. Putin reacted to their bs. Western citizens have little control over the elite warmongers business person and banksters.
So he had no real good reason to go, apart from learning something and getting some action, you guided hi nicely, also, I don't think we think the average Ukranian is getting anything but a bad deal man, I never see that, only the ones at the tops that are the usual suspects. And they always say Russians are like some rabid wolves just going in to kill babies etc? and the Ukranians are just pure innocent and lovely, that's BS man, you know this, don't push that BS man, Ukraine is the real controlled state and it's getting worse. Given his choice as to why he joined Ukraine, he easily could be fighting for Russia if they never let him into Ukraine? all these guys know nothing about why this 9-year long Proxy war even started, non of them! Russia is not perfect, but I'll say it again, they never went into Ukraine for nothing, think about really, they almost had the Norde Stream 2 finished and it would have been huge for Europe, which was going to lose the most from this? Ukraine and its masters. It's so obvious it's unbelievable, he still knows nothing about the US interference in the Coup and the reasons many did fight to hold referendums due to the Anti Russia Laws that were being put in at the time, this is what pushed so to break away, and they were bombed mercilessly, Can you one day try to ask in-depth reasons to these guys without the gloves one, they are not kids, but you interview them very shallowly about the reason they are there, the same reason you tend to simply believe blindly the fact Russia is being cruel to Ukranians for fun? so all Russians or 5 percent, or 40? You will also do this to China after they made Australia and much of the West Wealthy and much better off, we sell them our houses and land, and they don't steal it, USA and others can simply bully places when China puts in Infrastructure etc, etc, and now they are getting their due, USA and others simply want to change the Narrative, Saudi is bad one day and the next Biden is bending over for them and China, but no one trusts USA anymore. No corruption, it's it the top level where the Billions go, he won't see that, or the major arms being stolen, come on man, I'm waiting for you to be a harder interviewer on these guys, I know you know there's a hardcore lot in the Ukraine Army that even Zelensky fears. We all see the images and videos posted online of the Russians, Ukraine hates them and you say they don't do it? it does something for Ukranians if you feel Russians are Orcs, only a simp believes this. I hate the fact Utube can let Peo Ukranian sites slide more than even neutral ones, and the fact the video is used to make money off of all this footage is making millions for many of what I would consider EGO maniacs, is sickening, I respect your work although I do not agree with your takes on Russians and the way this war started and is actually going? but I just use as many online sources as possible and from all angles like you say, I wish people would talk more about de-escalation, as this is not a winnable war, and the USA is already looking to jump in on China with the Taiwan issue, with has years of context and is not meant to come to cross over until 2047 or something like that, so what's the rush USA? People who just go to fight for another country without real in-depth knowledge or Blood ties etc, stay out of this or you are just Glory hunters like this guy was! he admitted it, and if you had of pressed him for some back story to the conflict and his real take on why it's happening, I see this as just idiocy, as if ended up in a wheelchair, as I am, [ not through war ] I guarantee he would regret everything he did for simply? [ he can't even really say ] I Know you fear losing subs etc if you push the envelope to much, as most here are Pro -Ukranians simply for anti-Russian sentiment during our lives and the Wests using Putin as the Bad guys? maybe to Russians, but he pulled them from the ashes back into the light, one reason the USA hates Russians and always thinks they are better fighters etc, I watched so many Russian videos done by soldiers fighting in Chechnya etc, and they lost so many top ranked men due to them trying to convince villagers to surrender or helping people and their own, I saw commanders being so human, and they were simply doing a job, and Chchnya had CIA and their dirty tricks and funding all over it like Afghanistan prior to the war and every other Russian conflict. Russia was one of the first to call USA after 9/11 to offer help, and they did a lot, yst the US always backstabbed them, time and time again, just like in Ukraine, but this was said for years it was Russia's red line! can they not as a superpower make sure Nato which was supposed to be gone, never entered Ukraine, as it's minutes from Russia's capital? how can people not see this as a legitimate threat, just like putting on a Drone fair in the middle of a busy city during the day? A long post, maybe I'm just stupid? but it seems like common sense, and Zelensky's Speeches and the girl with that strong background remind me of another famous person, who wasn't acting, he could easily be changed for a much hard lined leader which strong Fascist Ideals with the groups there they tend to not talk about or gloss over saying " yes they are here, but they are pretty cool" really? do you think Russians see what I see? and many get are having Flashbacks of a war they lost 21 million in and still think about it many times through one year, I know they are not running from the recruiters, and no one talks about the volunteers that returned in droves to fight for Russia? [ crickets ], the West is losing and in denial, Russia is not fighting a major war, yet! but it's waiting for the real threat, - Nato, it's obvious, they will continue to deplete Ukraine of Western weapons until Nato either commits or leaves, and I believe if Nato joins on the Ground, China will send Russia the new Drone Swarming weapons, that are a game changer,. We need to DE-escalate somehow, but the West is controlling Ukraine? so I think Ukraine will be like the Kurds in Syria/Iraq. Excuse my poor writing skills, >Peace in Da East! Take care dude
Wow.... This is a novel. Be back to read it later, from what I read so far you are spot on. It bothers me how none of these guys care that they are fighting along side the Nazis and see nothing wrong with it
Well said, thanks. However I must point out Russia, China the US etc, they are all bad, the only question is who is worse. China is the biggest external threat to the West. The conflict is a matter of time
This guy appears to be someone who spends all their time in the rear and takes frequent rides to the front. I don't think he has a lot of information on anything.
@@OakInchyeah. I think now there are littel mercs left on the Frontline. There are Lots of americans and Other foreign Coaches Who train ukros in the back
This guy is incorrect. I have ppl who live in Donbass and they were banned from speaking Russian, banned from reading Russian books and were persecuted. Now just because he hasn't seen it does not mean it did not happen.
And I have the opposite to you. I have pro-Urianian Russian speakers who experienced the violent oppression of pro-Ukrainian rallies in the region by illegal separatists and Russian troops. Let's also consider Russia's attempts over the centuries to suppress the Ukrainian language and culture and their delusion that Ukrainians and Russian are the same.
@@paulfenton734have you seen the genealogy paper that litteraly shows ukrainians and Russians have no genetic difference? The only thing that's diffrent is ukraine probably has a higher jewish population. That about it.
Sure Igor. Banned from speaking Russian. 🤣The second largest city Kharkiv which Russia bombed is mostly Russian speaking. You can hear people talking Russian in Kiev all the time. Banned my @ss.
@@paulfenton734 The Galichan Mova aka "Ukrainian language" is not native to Ukraine. It was introduced by force, via a decree from the Supreme Soviet of Ukrainska SSR in 1989. At least know what you are talking about!
i wonder how many lpd/dpr members might be able to be apart of an interview like this.. id assume not alot but i think it could be alot of insight to "the other side"
They didn't live in Donbass under Ukraine after 2014 so what can they say. They were lied to. I lived there and I know that it was nothing like ruzzia was telling. Nobody was killing russians or shit. Ukraine didn't make me leave my city and carry the corpses of my dead neighbors, ruzzia did
Why would they want to do an interview with someone from a country who turned a blind eye during 2014-22 and actively supplied weapons to the people trying to kill them? This whole thing about Russia propaganda to me is hilarious as people are accusing the Russians of exactly of what Ukraine and our western media are also guilty of also.
Well, that was absolutely fascinating, in a multitude of ways. I've seen soldiers talk to each other before, and that is definitely what this was. I'm glad you picked up on the Right Sector stuff, that tells us something about him. He is clearly a far right white supremacist. It's a curious transition from someone who started out wanting to fight for the YPG, but he himself says that he wanted to fight above all else, and loves the military barracks lifestyle. This is clearly a born soldier who would have loved to have been a Spartan. He is clearly committed to a thoroughly romantic view of the Ukrainian people, as diligent and hard working peasants who look askance at the Sodom & Gomorrah of their own cities. He's never seen any corruption, never seen any prisoners shot, never seen anything but disciplined stoicism from the Ukrainian herrenvolk. And yet, as you remark, people were going to Ukraine for sex tourism even before the war, and it was very poor. There were plenty of down sides to the supposedly idyllic, bucolic, rural churchy lifestyle. He agrees that the cities were full of vice and sin, and criticises other foreign fighter for wallowing in them. The longer this went on, the more I though it was as if I were listening to the voice of an officer of the 22nd Panzer division Hitlerjugend. I mean that precisely. He praises the Right Sector recruits for the heroism and self-sacrifice, completely sincerely; he is almost certainly part of the Azov Battalion, as was, now Brigade. This is reinforced when he remarks that the Russians execute "our guys"; that is true, the Russians have a particular animus toward the Fascist units and their foreign volunteers. So we should understand that this is a very particular of the situation, and a very ideological one. After all, if he's been involved in the white supremacist militias since his arrival, how much actual experience of the Ukrainian peasant does he actually have? None; this is obviously a highly ideological belief system into which he has been indoctrinated. He sees all the great virtues as exhibited by the ultra-nationalists, and Ukrainian nationalism is the single virtue he admires. Indeed, from his own mouth, he regards those who have a different allegiance as zombies, as something far less than conscious and human Interesting remarks about the use of drones, I have been talking about that lately. Drones do look like a real change in the technical balance of war, and might well become even smaller and ubiquitous than they are now. They might become the primary antipersonnel weapon, bringing the dynamic of the air-to-air missile down the individual solder. If your weapons are very reliable, you only need to carry a few of them; and seeing as the enemy likely has similar weapons, you won't last long enough to need more than a few anyway.
Russian Russian government made a mistake, after the bloody battle for Mariupol, the Russian authorities gave the captured soldiers of the Azov regiment, and foreign fighters to Turkey. With the condition that they will stay in Turkey until the end of the war. But Turkey released these soldiers, and they returned to Ukraine and are fighting again. This caused irritation in the Russian army. And now when Nazis or mercenaries are captured, the chance of being killed increases many times.
Like the Odessa House of trade unions fire a few years ago: That was only due to, you know, electrical malfunctions inadvertently burning alive Ukrainians citizen speaking russian.
When american in Iraq said, "I fight for country", americans cheer him. When russian in Ukraine says, "I fight for country", americans call him brainwashed. Quess who's brainwashed. Americans.
@@alenmorandl5104Bahahahaa, WMDs is a horrible excuse meanwhile the Western media literally covered how the pro-Russian population was abused by right-wing death squads. Ukraine's own courts sentence Tornado company which included Azov members for war crimes and these are just the ones that didn't get away.
Lol. Some people like to fight, they like chaos and destruction, they feel alive in that environment. They should just be honest with themselves, but they can't, the ego gets in the way.
Once you are in the military, you belong somewhere. You have a family, a purpose, a place in the group. Then you go back to normal life to work in a baskin Robbins. Of course they prefer to be mobilized.
The irony that all the interviewees are doing the same thing they call others out for is evident in every one of these. Him : “they just want fame”, also him : “I just want to be remembered for this”
@@austinlevi3452some Go for Money also . They love Ukraine and can make some Action there. And also for some Fame when they Return Home But Who what Kind of Fame ? Only the Family will remember them . And maybe Friends. These are mostly es syria Guys Who what Action and Help ukraine.
And logically he has to pay the maximum penalty for that, his life he deserves to lose for killing foreigners in their countries. This murderous mercenary is the scum of the earth!
You’d be surprised how flexible you become to your battle buddy’s beliefs when you rely on them to keep you alive my dude. After all, you don’t really have a choice once you’re in the Army. You are at the needs of the force.
In Donbas from 2014 has operated Rusich Group and Russian Imperial Legion who are neo-nazis of Russia with same kind of symbolism as Azov. Of course there are more Russian neo-nazis everywhere in Wagner etc. Existence of neo-nazis who are in pretty much every country is a good reason for invasion only for the biggest tools.
@@thegall7437 Anyone who views Ukraine as a conflict about anything other than geopolitics doesn’t have very many brain cells to rub together. After all, this conflict was foretold by many geopolitical analysts years prior to hostilities. I feel for Ukraine being a pawn in all of this, but it certainly isn’t because Russia has become a resurgent USSR. They are the wastrel remnants of that defunct polity trying to scratch out a fraction of their old standing and security for survival. The Russians know, probably more than Western Europe wants to admit, that they are on a demographic and economic clock. But that’s my opinion on the conflict as a whole.
I appreciate his honesty when he said he's never seen the enemy directly, though he got shelled by arti a lot. He is the tells it as it is kind a guy! Bravo!
His experience is startling 1. no corruption? before the SMO Ukraine was thee most corrupt country in Europe, 2. the Ukranian military has actual Nazi's in their ranks, the Ukranian's idolizes Stepan Bandera.... 3. The Pulitzer award winning journalist has written a insightful piece on the level and extent the Ukrnian corruption. 4. Why did UK block Russia's demand to investigate the "Bucha Masacre"? please explain these realities.
He is a pawn, he doesn't see anything that he isn't shown. Just because he's there doesn't mean he knows what's happening behind the scenes. Imagine I took you to you to watch a movie, and I put your face right next to the movie screen, would you be able to see the movie? No. You wouldn't. Well, his face is right next to the movie screen, he's so close to the combat, that he doesn't see what's happening beyond the narrow picture he's shown. Primary sources like him are important, on the ground-reports are important, but know their limitations. This is guy is not an experienced theorist, he is a grunt. If you want to listen to people who know and understand what's happening, then listen to scholars like Seymour Hersh, John Mearsheimer etc. This grunt would not last in a debate against any scholar.
They are not realities but rather your own personal bias, as well as some authority bias. I was in Ukraine and I did not see any Nazis. No swastikas, no anti-semitism, no supremacist rhetoric. There were drunkards though.
1) I doubt he had much exposure to political and commercial corruption, 2) So do the Russians, 3) who, 4) its being painstakingly documented (it's absurd to have Russian involvement).
Yo! Haven't had the opportunity to tune in in recent time, but I do hear your voice has recovered really well! Thanks for the content you provide, it is invaluable in these times. Stay safe and stay healthy, lots of love towards you and your family from germany
Willy thank you for this, i question some things he says. But then this is the beauty of your interview because you give chance for people to give voice and you don't interrupt them and let them speak out. amazing job like always.
Interesting interview. His comments with respect to Right Sector (he finds no fault in their members, who have been incorporated into his unit) suggest that his unit is one of the Right Sector Militias who were incorporated into the AFU following the 2019 elections. The main guy for Right Sector is Dmytro Yarosh. He is a staunch Ukrainian nationalist, but his politics make it hard for the west to officially love him. He is very much against homosexuality, seeing the west as a decadent influence on Ukraine, and has vibrant anti semetic views. Despite being a big part of the 2014 coup de tat, he has disappeared from public view in recent years. Russia listed him as a terrorist, and for a while interpol included him on their list of undesirable folk, however he no longer seems to be classified as such. He claimed to be working as an advisor for the high command of the AFU in 2019, which has since been denied by them, however it is fairly likely he is working with the AFU in some capacity. He is popular with Ukrainian nationalists, and his organization has long standing ties with foreign military intelligence (since before 2014). In a way, he is much like the Ukrainian Prigozin. Despite his popularity with the nationalist militias, he failed to win a seat in the 2019 elections, and received less than 1% of the vote across Ukraine. Presumably he is not keen on Poland stepping in to rescue western Ukraine from Russia, so that may explain why his units have not been deployed to the meat grinders on the eastern front. If we are going to ultimately witness a partition of Ukraine, with the west joining Poland and the EU, and Russia taking the east from the Dnieper, Yarosh and his band of merry men are the largest obstacle to such a peace deal. He has no love for either Russia or the rainbow coalition of the selfie content creators, and so while he remains strong, Ukraine stays in the fight.
I don't know, I'm hearing the same thing over and over, soldiers don't use the word "atrocities" without trying to find a better word for ruthlessness words. It amazes me how many people still believe countries can control privates at the front line actions, yeah warcrimes would be committed and no one has a clue who, the only things that going to be obvious when you see the same insignia like Azov.
Would soldiers from other countries like to be treated more humanely? They came to a foreign country to kill Russian guys. What kind of attitude did they expect?
Every video/interview of a foreign mercenary in Ukraine has the same story - When shit got real and the Russians advanced, they ran away. Then they went home to the local pub and told stories of their bravery.
Anonymizing vocals makes your content unbearable IMO. Let's be real, if someone is this afraid to be discovered, still serves while saying stuff like this; its not credible.
I lost all respect for the fighter when he said that nothing but respect for for the right sector. While I sympathise with Ukraine but this idea that the western countries have that boundaries of countries can’t be changed is stupid and hypocritical.
Love Ukraine but yeah that's like asking for money while giving us the middle finger' the interviewee thinks we should support Ukraine and keep our mouths shut and not help them become more westernized' like what's the point of supporting them if they refuse to kick the cultural aspects that are in line with Russia.
I went to ukraine as a foreign volunteer, I went to a few front lines, i talked to many soilders, volunteers and survivors. I wanted to say, I agree with everything this soilder has said. His stories echo my experience and the experience of many of the people i worked with. These were my sentiments as well. Ukraine is not a western country, this is not a western war and should not bring our western opinions with us. It is not the ukranians who are corrupting this situation. Getting rid of corruption is part of what they are fighting for. I understand what he means when he talks about the ego that comes with alot foreign volunteers , snapping a few pictures and returning as heros. I felt the same. WAR TOURISM. They go there to "play army" . Its exploiting these people for monetary gain and an ego boost and its all over the place. Yet none of it goes to help Ukraine. The volunteers on the lines are the least funded and the least known about and very few in numbers. Most sit in Kyiv and play army. I am very glad I came across this interview, because on every level I agree with everything you talked about. I was not actually fighting, but i heard the same stories from many soilders who were. Keep up the good work! They need more like you!
Except his story is BS. When was he training Pravyi Sektor, because I was one of the only foreigners under contract with Pravyi Sektor (ДУК), and his story doesn't add up.
Wow. This guy is full of ish. Ive seen so many vids of Ukrn shooting unarmed civillans and unarmed PoWs. I've Russians giving cigarettes to Ukrn PoWs, and treating them with out aggression. The East voted in 2014 & 2022 overwhelmingly, to separate, 85-95%to be exact. They are culturally, linguistically Russian, going way back to census 2001. I thought we were supposed to let the will of the people decide their fate, like Hussein Obama said about Maidan. After the far roght met with J.McCain and V.Nuland installed the interim gov, and unconstitutionaly removed Yanocovych. Sick.
Would be interesting to see you build up your interviews, starting with the sight of these "soldiers" from the coup in 2014 until 2022, before the SMO started.
US tax dollars are paying the salaries of 57k first responders as well as small business owners, farmers... This guy got so mad about seeing that in a post.... maybe he should watch the September 25th airing of 60 Minutes. There's something off with this guy. He's minimizing things we know the truth about.
I fought for a little bit, one thing Ukraine taught me was how out of shape I was, and how you can overcome the fear of artillery. It was a crazy experience
If it is true that the country is 'ultra conservative' as this guy seems to think, then is it worth giving them billions of dollars while the working class in western countries suffer the worst wealth disparity ever? Pumping billions into countries to improve them doesn't work looking at the USA's history? In any case, great enjoyable interview as always. I hope this madness ends soon.
@@alphaclam you've got to be joking, you can't have multiple billionares taking over everything, whilst millionares try and persuade people in western standards of poverty that working more will mean you can be just like them. Trickle down economics just doesn't work, unfortunately humans are too greedy.
@@LouNYF it's not an or situation, we need to take care of our own and ne a benevolent player on the world stage. The world is more interconnected then ever and it is naive to believe we can throw others under the bus and get away scott free
Could you try once to reach out to the free Journalist Patrick Lancaster? I would love to see him once in your interview. P.S. good job keep going 👍 P.P.S. I should mention that my wife is from the east part of Ukraine and since day one, she prayed every evening that her homeland will break free from Ukraine suppression. Her Master graduation in Mathematics at Charkiw (XapkiB) University got rejected just because she wrote it in her native russian language. So maybe we should start to see that in every conflict, each side is convinced to do "the right the good" and the enemy is only "the bad and the evil". It's so easy to totally forget that each side is convinced to have a righteous reason. In my personal opinion I can only hope that there will be a revival of peace talks asap.
That will not happen as Willy would not take a chance of being booted from YT. I also think Willy falls in the camp of people that think Putin and Russia are evil and the USA/NATO are wonderful.
@@geoffreyveale7715 Biggest nation of little people in the world needs to grab more land. Defensive alliance tries to prevent that by helping a nation resisting Russian annexation/ethnocide. Hmm yeah, let me simp for bullied Putin here.
@@geoffreyveale7715 well yes you might surely have a point there... 🤔 anyway I think it could be interesting if he would interview and questioning him....
@@thegall7437 I totally understand your point of view. But, even if Ukraine will be able to re-anex all of the eastern teritories or even incl. Krimea with militairy forces, there will be no peace! This would lead definate to an kind of guerilla warfare. Like I experienced it myself in Afghanistan. How this ended we all know.... As I said; I know the area, I know the people, I have by my wife close family ties over there and I have seen with my own eyes how cheerful the population has been about their independence from Ukraine. No sorry but the endless death and destruction on both sides can only be solved by negotiations and not by always more weapons. Even if many of our western politicians (payed by the industial militairy complex like the german Strack-Zimmermann and others) try to make you belive it.... And last but not least I'm conviced that Putin is crazy enough to push the red button, if this is his last resort to safe Krimea (Not the big button,... but two or three smaller A-bombs... ? sure.)
Willy got his voice box fixed finally! Man i used to try to watch some of his stuff just out of admiration for an absolute trooper, sometimes the guy could hardly speak but he still made a video. That is dedication.
(I'm sure it's just a coincidence): Adolf Heusinger, Hitler's Chief of Staff, became Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, 1961-1964 Hans Speidel, Rommel's Chief of Staff, became Commander in Chief of NATO Forces Central Europe, 1957-1963 Johannes Steinhoff, Luftwaffe fighter ace, became Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, 1971-1974 Johan von Kielmansegg, General Staff Officer Wehrmacht High Command, became NATO Commander Allied Forces Central Europe, 1966-1968 Ernst Faber, Lt Col Wehrmacht General Staff, became Commander in Chief NATO Forces Central Europe, 1973-1975 Karl Schnell, First General Staff Officer 76th Panzer Corps, became Commander in Chief NATO Forces Central Europe, 1975-1977 Franz-Joseph Schulze, Senior Lieutenant Luftwaffe, became Commander in Chief NATO Forces Central Europe, 1977-1979
That's because all this gentleman is interested in making money. He's a joke and has little to no solid information about what is going on inside Ukraine
I dont know where this guy fought. Honestly. Im american. Im in ukraine fighting. The fighting is very very close many times. Obviously artillary effecta everyone. But assaults are common place and whoever wins those assaults walks over the dead bodies of the other side. So i disagree with this guy.
I don't think that this man understands that the way he sees Russian people/soldiers is the way that the rest of the world sees western people/soldiers.
@@IAMJEFFREY-cw9ns To me he sounds like a westernized Russian, who lived a couple of years abroad and tightened up his English skills. Maybe bought on their propaganda and decided to fight for Ukraine. But that's just my impression.
@@arseniy_viktorovich That could very well be the case here. Yeah I've been around native Russians who lived in the west for a number of years and after time they adopt a different accent and they pick up the language quick. It's hard to tell with these mercenaries. He refers to America as the USA too. Most Americans just say America.
His downplaying of casualties really does a disservice to the public who may watch this while they are considering going to fight for ukraine. "lost tens of guys..." Wow really?
Feels like you're just interviewing those with unrealistic expectations! If you interviewed me after 7 yrs in 6RAR & HMAS Brisbane i would've been the same but others would have a different view!
this war like so many others just bad news for the people of the country its happening in. its one thing to see it on the news and another to be the friends or family of those people affected by it. at the end of the Vietnam war my dad managed to help out some of his vietnamese friends families to get some to australia or france. the sad thing is how many he couldnt help. the effect the whole war had on that country that many here in Australia just will never understand. this war even if it ends in a year or even 10 will affect Ukraine for decades. Slava Ukraine, let peace come soon and those affected be helped out by the rest of us that have it way better for as long as it takes. the pain of war doesnt stop just because the fighting has.
can you subtitle it please willy ? with an artificial intelligence if you want, just to give an idea. it's quite difficult to understand all the words with the voice modifier.
In the start of the war , i think it was March or so Last year when a Mafia Gang in a black Car With ukro Plate Beat Up a Taxi Driver Who stood in a parking place in Front of a expensive Hotel. So some Young ukro men rather Go around and Beat people Then Fight for their country . Classic
Well nobody has ever said "the average Ukrainian" is getting rich Willy. Nobody. Has. Ever. Said. That. It's the top 1% and the political elite of Ukraine profiteering, I don't think anybody has ever argued anything different.
Tried to travel join the YPG at 17? Yeah I doubt that. It would be a bad press to the YPG. The Kurds would never allow underage foreign volunteers. He's definitely a bullshitter. If he had bothered to read the air regulations rules. "Gate escort and guardian contact is required for those who are 15-17 years old" This guy reads books of mercenaries, war tourism and seeks out conflicts and he calls other people out for doing the same thing as he is doing right now. He's definitely projecting which makes his statements even more unreliable.
Hi Willy, You're doing a great job overall, I just wanted to correct you in regards to you saying that people think the average ukrainain is scamming them. That is very far from the opinions I hold and others as well. Those people are the real victims of this situation, what people mean when they say that Ukraine is laundering money is that the top 1% in the country, mainly the government, are not using the money they get for the purpose they claim to use it for. There have been plenty of curroption scandals throughout this conflict, one is when the defense minister of ukraine bought bread for 100$ a piece, for the soldiers in the front lines. Which continued for several months until he got "punished" and simply had his title change from ministry of defense to a different title.. That's why people like me, really don't believe the narrative that these people are trying to defend their country. I'm part ukrainain myself, and yet I don't believe in these people whatsoever. They've proven enough times to be lying to us, and at this point after so many lies I started believing the Russian story more. As it made more sense and so far Russia lied much less... I feel sadness for the average ukrainain and immense hatred to the people betraying those people.
Sorry mate but you are clearly wrong, misinformed or a rus-troll-bot! The media told us that Ukraine had a massive corruption problem prior to the war. When the war started all corrupt officials changed their ways....
I’m very glad to come across a Ukrainian that is starting to see how his people are being used to hurt his own brothers. I’m not saying that everything Russia does is good, but the level of sick cynicism that the Western governments have for using people with a common religion, language and culture to kill each other for geopolitical aims is really unbelievable. I’ve said to many Ukrainians, that when they find out how the Western governments have cynically used them, and when they find out about the knife they had behind their backs, that they were going to sell all Ukrainians into slavery to US corporations and banks, and worse, shove anti religious and anti traditional values down their throats in the event of a Ukrainian victory, even the most fanatical nationalist will throw himself at the feet of the Russians and will not let go until they sign a treaty promising never to step one foot outside of Ukraine ever again. That is how disgustingly evil and cynical the Western governments are
We need people like you to remain loving and patient and understanding towards Ukrainians and to begin to explain things calmly. Let them get angry and insult, but don’t flinch and don’t respond in kind. These are our brothers who are being mentally raped by people who could not care less about them
G'day legends,
We've been trying to make this work now for a number of months and last night we got the chance! Thankyou again mate, I really appreciate your time and openness with me! Episode is also on Spotify if that is better for you!
You make this possible, to The Support Channel directly:
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Going hard out with the advertising in this post 😂😂😂 gotta make those $$$ while the war is still going
If you listen to him he admits the war is over. He admits he never engaged the Russians face to face. He admits that "The Great and Mighty Warrior King of Mother Russia, Vladimir Putin" has found the Super Weapon, the drone, to end this war by spring. Great, great interview Willy OAM, like a horse to water you let him spill his guts on the real truth and just let him lap up the water. I hope he does go home and gets a wife and has children. Will send you a $1,000 bucks. Please give him $500 to go home and start a family! God bless you Willy!!!
By the way, even though I am "The Poorest of the Poor, and Weakest of the Weak", as an a American, I know you (Willy) are a intersection among both the Ukrainian and Russian armies. Therefore just invoke my signature names of "The Hi-Jacker" or "The Reality Changer" ( 1 Cor. 1:26-29 ) and when it comes to the ears of "The Great and Mighty Warrior King of Mother Russia, Vladimir Putin" he will pay the bill. Hell make it $2,000 dollars. Putin is a man of honor and always pays. Just invoke my name and you will get paid. The interviewer gets half--$1,000 bucks to leave Ukraine and start a family---that's the deal. Just a great great interview!!!
subtitles would help for the soldier
The far right supports the russians. lol.
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
01:38 😎 The interviewee joined the US Marine Corps and desired more adventure after completing his service.
03:41 🌍 He decided to go to Ukraine and fight for three years due to historical and cultural resonance.
08:46 🤔 Attitudes of foreign fighters have shifted from serious commitment to seeking fame and Hollywood-style action.
11:20 💰 Some foreigners exploit the conflict for personal gain, leading to negative perceptions among Ukrainians.
13:20 🚀 Misconceptions exist about the nature of the conflict, with people imagining Ukraine as one continuous battlefield.
14:31 👀 Despite being in conflict areas, the interviewee has never actually seen Russian soldiers on the front lines.
17:02 👥 Russians are exposed to state-controlled media, affecting their perceptions of the war and Ukraine.
18:15 😕 Attitudes towards the Russian population vary, but there's hope for change among the younger generation.
20:07 🙌 Some foreigners initially brought knowledge, eagerness to learn, and a sense of unity to Ukrainian units.
21:04 😠 A growing "main character syndrome" among foreigners involves unrealistic expectations, arrogance, and risks.
22:01 🤯 Disregard for warnings and failure to adapt to local conditions can result in unnecessary casualties.
23:02 💸 Monetization of war-related content on social media can lead to exploitation and a loss of genuine commitment.
23:43 😮 Foreign volunteers often engage in superficial humanitarian activities, snapping selfies and showing minimal commitment.
24:40 🌊 After flooding in certain areas, many volunteers arrived to help, but some villages remained neglected and received no assistance for months.
26:03 💰 Money meant for humanitarian efforts sometimes gets diverted to other activities, raising questions about the effectiveness of aid.
27:53 😷 Some foreign individuals come to Ukraine, seemingly for noble reasons, but end up prioritizing self-promotion and personal agendas.
29:21 🤝 Constructive criticism is essential, but some individuals use online platforms to promote distorted views of Ukraine for personal gain.
30:50 🇺🇦 Ukraine's societal values are often misunderstood by foreigners who promote their own ideologies without a proper understanding of the country.
32:30 🧐 Some foreigners who enter Ukrainian units can be disruptive, promoting divisive agendas and seeking personal attention.
34:38 💻 Online presence and popularity have become a form of currency, influencing behaviors and actions to gain followers and likes.
35:59 🌍 Some individuals prioritize online approval over real-life connections, even if their online persona contradicts their true self.
38:00 ⚖️ Some foreign fighters criticize Ukrainians in private but publicly praise the country to attract followers and donations.
39:41 🏴 Different units within the Ukrainian military can vary significantly in terms of corruption and professionalism.
41:47 🕊️ Some foreign fighters respect the principles of humane treatment even towards Russian prisoners of war, emphasizing the importance of preserving lives.
43:50 🔍 Analyzing and understanding the capabilities of the enemy, regardless of their equipment, is crucial in warfare.
47:14 🔄 Simplistic stereotypes about enemy soldiers hinder a comprehensive assessment of the situation and the variety of adversaries in the field.
48:37 🎙️ Interviewer values candidness and seeks firsthand information from foreign soldiers.
49:20 🚀 Ukraine needs more training, supplies, ammunition, and drones for better results on the front line.
50:15 🛡️ Ukrainian units should be proactive rather than reactive; need to step up their response to threats.
51:02 🪖 Cheap drones have revolutionized warfare; their potential for damage is significant.
52:14 ⚙️ Ukraine should establish a factory or workshop to produce more drones for defense.
56:10 🏢 Old-school military life in barracks fosters camaraderie and better soldier training.
57:53 📝 Cross-training and versatility in soldier skills improve overall readiness and capabilities.
01:00:24 🔀 Bureaucracy in larger military organizations hampers cross-training and adaptability.
01:01:51 🤝 The interviewee offers continued availability for discussion and sharing perspectives.
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Hey, dude -- that was very generous of you to post all that for our benefit. Thx so much. 👍
A lot of work involved in that breakdown, thank you hopefully we see you again.
Made with HARPA AI. Pretty impressive how it's able to give timestamps to a vocal conversation.
Thank you so much dude !!
English isn't my native tongue so I was really struggling to understand everything.
@@KingDomsKingdom85 It reads the transcripts for the videos and creates the timestamp when the topic changes.
him: i or we have never seen a russian on the battlefield, but we have seen russians executing people!
....... huh?!
Yup, all he is spewing is garbage, and propaganda
They wouldn't tell the useful idiots shit. And he is a fanboy of Right Sector. That pretty much says everything. @@josefsmonkin9721
You need to relisten.
That is not what he said.
He have never seen Russians because he have never been close to the front line. In summer months, when the grass is 2 meters tall, average engagement distance is 25-50 meters, anyone who part takes in any active small arms combat sees opposing forces regularly.
Yup, also the bs about being in Odessa and not seeing a Russian, everyone speaks Russian there lol. Right Sector question about nazism he dodges as well. We have internet we can see what Right Sector is about.
17:00 he said they look at the opp population as zombies and thats okay they see u as the same lol
The greatest issue with western observers of this conflict that they believe Russians only listen to Russian propaganda. Lots of people in Russia speak English and for a lot of people it was Western propaganda that turned pro-western Russians away (because it was disgustingly oversimplified to address public with low attention span and ofc for propaganda reasons). Today most people in Russia see this conflict as a geopolitical battle, where Ukraine is just a coin which has been flipped throughout the history.
This soldier is just another example of an individual who has swallowed western propaganda and then has been sucked in by Ukrainian propaganda. He talks about Ukrainians who believe Russian propaganda ignoring the fact that the rest of Ukraine has been fed a steady diet by their leaders of western propaganda. Another well intentioned grunt.
Russia is recruiting Gurkhas for Wagner and giving them citizenship if they can speak either English or Russian. They are obviously confident that somebody who speaks English can cope ib Russia.
@@MelvilleSperryn Big expat community in moscow, with english schools
@@MelvilleSperrynwhy not hire gurhkas, Britain treats them utter garbage before, during and after service.
BS. They are slaves and I’d most likely be one too if raised in Soviet RU(Perestroika Deception).
Of course it's interesting listening to soldiers like this.
But as I listen, it occurs to me he's no better informed on the politics and the history and the controversial aspects than the average punter.
And why would he be? He mixes with people who've picked a side and they all confirm each others assumptions and world view.
The only real value in soldier interviews is their battle stories and sense of the current frontline morale.
Yeah hearing some of these 'soldiers' talk about history & which side is right/wrong is cringe🤐 As you said, the only real value is hearing about their tales on the battlefield.
@@IAMJEFFREY-cw9nshalf the video felt like propaganda spill tbh. Blaming foreign fighters constantly for problems rather than finding it strange theres so many that have had a terrible experience with leadership. Its like listening to an NCO in the US pretend its not their fault retention is low but every soldier will tell u shit leadership is a major reason for leaving and not staying.
@@Robloxdude260 Did you see Willy's interview with Soldier X not too long ago? He was blaming his superiors the whole time. Yeah bad leadership leads to poor results but some of these guys are there for the thrill of it and of course the money. A true mercenary will fight for whoever pays him good coin though Soldier X told Willy that he hasn't been paid a cent.
@@IAMJEFFREY-cw9ns big truuuue. However the guy in the video didnt once point the blame to any bad leadership and always foreign volunteers. Dudes just willfully ignorant or a big ass liar because hes been there for so long
As eyes on the ground he's fascinating to listen to. I heard a lot of things that parallel corruption during the Vietnam War except with a modern dimension. Everything he said was useless if overlaid upon the political theater. The power brokers running the Ukraine effort from the Washington DC elite to British clubs and the rooms of NATO are just disgusting and ignorant of the situation.
This guy dosent sound like he is very credible!...
Libya was ranked 35th in the world for prosperity, it was the richest country in Africa. Libyia own no money to any country or bank. Libyia had free medical for everyone, they had free education for everyone, they had 144 tons have gold. THAT'S WHAT NATO DESTROYED that's why the free world supports Russia !
Facts
I don't know what free world is. Freedom itself is kind of a farse. Everyone has to do something always. There is no freedom.
And btw the free world doesn’t support Russia bloody hell North Korea and Syria do and a few basket case African country’s do
144 tonnes? Lol more than 10 times that where I work
Yeah... Gadaffi was an angel... Do you have any valid documentation for your statements. How do you know that the free world support Russia?
Really wish you could get a Wagner guy on.
Let's get Utkin on the show xD
Surprised Prigo hasn't hit Willy up.
Talks about how the russians dehumanise people, next sentence he states how he looks at russian speaking ukrainians as robots and zombies. You couldn't write it 😂
A Nazi is pretty easy to spot.
All of these sudden overnight "experts" that just sprang up all over youtube right at the beginning of last year are just opportunistic vultures that will say anything or back up anything that the mainstream says and many of them came from dubious origins and probably get zog money behind the scenes to pump out endless propaganda and the woke zog owned TH-cam Al Gore Rythem favors them heavily also.
That’s not what he said
He said Russians in Russia are robots and zombies
Russian speakers in Ukraine aren’t demonised
Maybe your comprehension skills need reeducation
@@lillibitjohnson7293 You mean the Ukrainians who identify as Russians? Thats what this whole war was about in the 1st place dumb dumb. Cope more tho feel free, maybe go watch some CNN ("Ukraine is approaching the outskirts of moscow" 🤣)
@@SuperBrahimos 😂 true!
"Corruption has never been seen in Ukraine". Two seconds later: "Corruption has definitely been seen in Ukraine first hand by my friends, and lots of it". I can't believe a thing this guy says. He constantly contradicts himself.
Ukraine is the most corrupt country in Europe and infested with Nazis
must have forgotten some things.
Cause he is a spineless nazi criminal. The scumm of humanity. Filth. The world will be a better place without him.
"POWs are always treated with respect" 2 mins later... "We need POWs, we can't just go around executing them..."
Corruption is a ... what I had been excluded from
Русские всё видят и всё читают, на английском, русском и украинском, побольше вас. То что мы пишем комментарии на английском не значит что мы из Огайо.
да братишк,очень по-английски написал
лучший английский
@@danilkorovin6012 I think he was trying to make a point.
Ever see Ghostbusters?
It’s easier for us ignorant westerners to assume those who disagree with us only do so because they are brainwashed and uninformed. The irony is that we are by far the most propagandized population and we largely don’t realize it because the facade of separation between our media and the state. Nearly all the Russians I’ve heard from are well informed on this conflict.
Dude tryed to join YPG but was afraid that we would have to fight Turkie and he would be marked as terrorist.
Went to Ukraine as a mercenary 3 years ago - thus 1.5 years before Russian invasion. Whom did he fight?
3(!) years of shelling and he never seen a russian BUT every atrocity like missing men accounted to russians. What russians do it James Bond/Hitman style? Or is there an organisation that has accounts of terrorism (Dugina, Tatarskiy), arrests (Gonzalo Lira), killing of traitors and fake stories (Ghost of Kyev, defence of Snake Island). I understand that dude was paid by Ukraine for three years he has to beleive UA stories out of convinience.
Yeah russians have access to foreign media and we do not watch our TV but then you compare reality and material provided by media on both sides... Listening to west propaganda I am more and more inclined to beleive russian state TV.
The West wasn’t like what it is now 30 years. I have to counter brainwash my kids for I don’t want them to take in the shit they hear in schools and on TV.
I never thought it would be like this when I first arrived in Australia.
Average citizens in Australia or indeed the West are by and large very naive and believe the government propaganda without critical thinking.
ikr, it's a bit off, this american guy is a joke lol
The West banned Russian news sources for fear their population would see some truth. Most Westerners are too stupid to see that they live in a very controlled society.....roll up you sleeves for a jab or lose your job. Goes right over their heads
You little Russians invaded Ukraine in 2014 and same year started sending guns and troops into Donbas to steal that too.
For 1.5 years he was terrorizing the people of Donbass.
17:20 and this guy isn’t plugged into the NATO Propaganda machine 🔥 he’s only kidding himself 😂
oh god, you're a qanon basketcase, keep that tinfoil hat on
rusian propaganda machine is worse
@@jmgonzales7701 nope
@@jmgonzales7701 Hell no
@@redegeldunit420 its far worse
He says he never saw combat or Russians but states as fact that they commit war crimes. There are some pretty nasty and hard to watch videos, from just before the conflict and just after it started, of Ukrainian soldiers torturing and killing Russians whom had been captured. Sh!t there were even videos of crucifixions posted. Bottom line both sides have committed these acts.
I remember the crucifixion. I belive it was in 2016. They nailed him to the cross and set him on fire. That was done by the AZOV members.
This guy never even saw the Russians, but he has seen lots of Russian atrocities??? Really…….. 😢😢😢
I caught that too. Jeez Louis, are we ever gonna get the real account of anything???.
The propaganda dripping from the guy, just wowwww and he sounds so believable.
This guy completely fails the smell test
This whole channel fails the smell test frankly.
Brain dead take, yes you can see results of actions without seen the action itself.
Also you can see videos of executions that circulated telegram for some time.
@@voleksandr7065 Anybody can make a video to show anything they want to show........ like the one in Bucha, no? 😀
never seen so so many luxury cars in all over Europe as in Kyiv. Not only luxury but super tuned as well.
me to...every bar has a Bentley or Ferrari parked infront...
and at night they drive 100 miles per hour in city centre...right infront of police, wich does nothing...😂😂😂
Corruption capital of 🌍
Ukraine is the second most corrupt nation on earth, second only to the usa,,
Try Kosovo, the heaven of stolen german cars....
based 🇺🇦💰💸😎💪
I find it hard to believe this man. He doesn't talk like a soldier. He sounds more like a Reservist just back from summer training. I'm glad you interviewed him Willy.
He says Russian believe their Mainstream ......Not all. Some listen to Western Media thats also Propaganda for everything anti Russia . Its Just that Russian are patriotic.
That guy has never been in the Ukraine war...nice try anyway.
generic dont watch this video response, at least give some reasons. I am more curious to watch now thanks
That guy has been in the Ukraine war... nice try anyway.
@@dharmdevil im 25min into it, yes he was there, you couldnt fake this interview
He never saw an angry man…😂
Even if you are joking . . . :)
A funny guy, loves Ukrainian history He is in Odessa and doesn't know what happened on May 2, 2014.
He did not see the Russian, it is clear that he saw them so that he would not be alive. Russians love foreign mercenaries in Ukraine, they simply adore them.
Im in Oklahoma, and I know what happened at the union hall.
yes because the russians always get killed out there by foreign fighters
So what happened in odessa? One Ukrainians burned another Ukrainians, because they were throwing molotovs at each other?
@@demivik5812why don't you fkin Google it?
@@triggerwarning5762🙏🙏🏾😔😔😔
Is this guy AZOV because prior to 2022 that’s where the majority of the Foreign Fighters went to 🔥 🔥 🔥
Where did you hear that? That sounds like something you made up
@@jamescooke7243 Azov did have a lot of Foreign merc's working with them.....not normally as part of Azov but working along side them
There was various volunteers bridgades before the full invasion , the Georgian Legion is quite literally the unit MOST foreigners sign up for due to the fact most of the officers and commanders speak the various languages of Europe and can translate for their Ukrainian mates
😂😂😂ok joker
That seems to be backed up by the prominence of Azov in the Mariupol conflict and the admission by the young American Willy interviewed around a year ago who was inserted into Azov.
So basically he would serve anyone who pays him….. nice fella…
Definitely not what he said or even really hinted at.
He just wanted to fight the war, get stories, be remembered and etc. simple as.
@@lovepeace9727 Reply ur point might be true, but he definitely didn't do it for the money.
I AGREE !! ABSOLUTELY!! HE IS A THRILL SEEKER MERCENARY!!
@@ApocalypsesDawnNot only But the Money is a good Sidestory . Also some get Chiks. The Thing is : Not all of them are only coming there to protect Ukraine . Its the Things around that make them come. Also the thrill
Tell this Ukrainian guest that he is "a cheap tool to contain Russia," as the President of Poland said.
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Source?
Do you want to be the expensive tool? We are all being exploited to some degree, but I promise he is not fighting for you he is fighting for himself
Ok found it. In full context:
“It is very simple,” Polish President Andrzej Duda told me last week. “Right now, Russian imperialism can be stopped cheaply, because American soldiers are not dying.” But if we don’t put a halt to Russian aggression now, “there will be a very high price to be paid.”
Basically if Russians won't be stopeed now they will rebuild their army and attack Baltic countries (including Poland) which will be a much bigger war involving Nato (possibly WW3) and Ukraine. They won't win war without cutting the supply chain.
Duda is pushing US to give Ukraine resources that would allow to win the war and not just "survive". That talk was addressed to Americans imagination and Duda is not that good in English.
@@DanielBoguszGood grief.....the President of Poland is his source, he actually said it in a recent interview.
Sheer comedy...thanks for the laughs
huh
The brainwashed accusing the enemy of being brainwashed.
Common theme on this channel. They don't realize they are propagandized exactly as they believe the Russians are.
Well said!
You're referring to Russians, right? Or is it yourself?
@@OctavChelaru It goes both ways sir, it goes both ways
@@OctavChelaru here's another one
Bet this “ hero” didn’t feel the same way when they invaded Iraq on false pretence
He wants Ukraine to live under the Global American Empire. It will end up with 6 year old Trans children and mass replacement migration.
The NeoCons destroyed Iraq Syria Libya Afghanistan and will end up destroying Ukraine.
The thing is, as i heard about one "volunteer"
"They looked exactly like myself, and they being bombed there"
European and americans have zero sympathy for arabs and others, well, there not enough sympathy to get involved
garbage trash Iraq invated Kuwait ? how about that dog
@@ЕвгенийПершин-е1ь But that's also exactly the other way around - Arabs and others don't give a single sh.t about westerners (Chinese don't give a damn about Arabs and westerners, etc). We are all very tribal, no matter were we come from.
As a russian, i'll say that most russian people dont even watch TV these days, it's mostly older generations, and even then, you can find opposing channels that challenge governments agenda and give different opinions on stuff, so it's not THAT bad as in like North Korea or whatever. You don't even need VPN to get access to most western media.
This fighter guy calls us zombies, robots and idiots that only watch russian propaganda, so be it.
Actually tho, i was pro-Ukraine and anti-Russia for years just because of western media i was watching and because of our own opposition forces, and despite the fact that my relatives got bombed there in Donbass by Ukraine's side in 2017, i was still blinded, was going to rallies and screaming libtard shit. My opinion started to change because of channels like this one, because of unbiased reports, stories and many interesting info that challenged my world views, not because of our "braindead russian propaganda" that only gave an oversimplified convenient picture.
That's why i decided to work with Donbass refugees in Crimea. Now i fully support both, freedom fighters of Donbass that lost their democratic rights after 2014, as well as will of Crimean people that used international law of self determination of people.
I believe that people of Ukraine were fooled, brainwashed and used by the West and i believe that they should be brought back to senses. (funny how this conclusion i got from watching anything but russian propaganda, actually falls in line with our russian propaganda)
Go in public tell about your support for Ukraine XD you would have been in jail if you opened your mouth. Silly slav or should I say slave since it means the same thing.
I've always voted Democrat, I've always believed they were the best on balance but after impeachment number 4 I realised that Donald Trump is the saviour of America and Fox News is actually the truth. lol
@@edc1569 not sure if it's sarcastic or not
Western elite definitely begged for the war since 20 years ago. Putin reacted to their bs. Western citizens have little control over the elite warmongers business person and banksters.
Do they see Ukraïnians as non Russians ? I don´t think so.
So he had no real good reason to go, apart from learning something and getting some action, you guided hi nicely, also, I don't think we think the average Ukranian is getting anything but a bad deal man, I never see that, only the ones at the tops that are the usual suspects.
And they always say Russians are like some rabid wolves just going in to kill babies etc? and the Ukranians are just pure innocent and lovely, that's BS man, you know this, don't push that BS man, Ukraine is the real controlled state and it's getting worse.
Given his choice as to why he joined Ukraine, he easily could be fighting for Russia if they never let him into Ukraine? all these guys know nothing about why this 9-year long Proxy war even started, non of them! Russia is not perfect, but I'll say it again, they never went into Ukraine for nothing, think about really, they almost had the Norde Stream 2 finished and it would have been huge for Europe, which was going to lose the most from this? Ukraine and its masters.
It's so obvious it's unbelievable, he still knows nothing about the US interference in the Coup and the reasons many did fight to hold referendums due to the Anti Russia Laws that were being put in at the time, this is what pushed so to break away, and they were bombed mercilessly,
Can you one day try to ask in-depth reasons to these guys without the gloves one, they are not kids, but you interview them very shallowly about the reason they are there, the same reason you tend to simply believe blindly the fact Russia is being cruel to Ukranians for fun? so all Russians or 5 percent, or 40?
You will also do this to China after they made Australia and much of the West Wealthy and much better off, we sell them our houses and land, and they don't steal it, USA and others can simply bully places when China puts in Infrastructure etc, etc, and now they are getting their due, USA and others simply want to change the Narrative, Saudi is bad one day and the next Biden is bending over for them and China, but no one trusts USA anymore.
No corruption, it's it the top level where the Billions go, he won't see that, or the major arms being stolen, come on man, I'm waiting for you to be a harder interviewer on these guys, I know you know there's a hardcore lot in the Ukraine Army that even Zelensky fears.
We all see the images and videos posted online of the Russians, Ukraine hates them and you say they don't do it? it does something for Ukranians if you feel Russians are Orcs, only a simp believes this.
I hate the fact Utube can let Peo Ukranian sites slide more than even neutral ones, and the fact the video is used to make money off of all this footage is making millions for many of what I would consider EGO maniacs, is sickening, I respect your work although I do not agree with your takes on Russians and the way this war started and is actually going? but I just use as many online sources as possible and from all angles like you say, I wish people would talk more about de-escalation, as this is not a winnable war, and the USA is already looking to jump in on China with the Taiwan issue, with has years of context and is not meant to come to cross over until 2047 or something like that, so what's the rush USA?
People who just go to fight for another country without real in-depth knowledge or Blood ties etc, stay out of this or you are just Glory hunters like this guy was! he admitted it, and if you had of pressed him for some back story to the conflict and his real take on why it's happening, I see this as just idiocy, as if ended up in a wheelchair, as I am, [ not through war ] I guarantee he would regret everything he did for simply? [ he can't even really say ]
I Know you fear losing subs etc if you push the envelope to much, as most here are Pro -Ukranians simply for anti-Russian sentiment during our lives and the Wests using Putin as the Bad guys? maybe to Russians, but he pulled them from the ashes back into the light, one reason the USA hates Russians and always thinks they are better fighters etc, I watched so many Russian videos done by soldiers fighting in Chechnya etc, and they lost so many top ranked men due to them trying to convince villagers to surrender or helping people and their own, I saw commanders being so human, and they were simply doing a job, and Chchnya had CIA and their dirty tricks and funding all over it like Afghanistan prior to the war and every other Russian conflict.
Russia was one of the first to call USA after 9/11 to offer help, and they did a lot, yst the US always backstabbed them, time and time again, just like in Ukraine, but this was said for years it was Russia's red line! can they not as a superpower make sure Nato which was supposed to be gone, never entered Ukraine, as it's minutes from Russia's capital? how can people not see this as a legitimate threat, just like putting on a Drone fair in the middle of a busy city during the day?
A long post, maybe I'm just stupid? but it seems like common sense, and Zelensky's Speeches and the girl with that strong background remind me of another famous person, who wasn't acting, he could easily be changed for a much hard lined leader which strong Fascist Ideals with the groups there they tend to not talk about or gloss over saying " yes they are here, but they are pretty cool" really? do you think Russians see what I see? and many get are having Flashbacks of a war they lost 21 million in and still think about it many times through one year, I know they are not running from the recruiters, and no one talks about the volunteers that returned in droves to fight for Russia? [ crickets ], the West is losing and in denial, Russia is not fighting a major war, yet! but it's waiting for the real threat, - Nato, it's obvious, they will continue to deplete Ukraine of Western weapons until Nato either commits or leaves, and I believe if Nato joins on the Ground, China will send Russia the new Drone Swarming weapons, that are a game changer,.
We need to DE-escalate somehow, but the West is controlling Ukraine? so I think Ukraine will be like the Kurds in Syria/Iraq.
Excuse my poor writing skills, >Peace in Da East!
Take care dude
Wow.... This is a novel. Be back to read it later, from what I read so far you are spot on. It bothers me how none of these guys care that they are fighting along side the Nazis and see nothing wrong with it
You wrote exactly what needed to be said. Well done. Not a novel. There's just some things that need words to describe them.
Well said, thanks.
However I must point out Russia, China the US etc, they are all bad, the only question is who is worse.
China is the biggest external threat to the West. The conflict is a matter of time
No one trust US? im from the Philippines and i trust the US with my whole life. Its either them or the fuking ch1n-k above us
Excellent, I agree.
He can't talk about the counter offensive and his fellow soilders reactions to it?
This guy appears to be someone who spends all their time in the rear and takes frequent rides to the front. I don't think he has a lot of information on anything.
@@OakInchyeah. I think now there are littel mercs left on the Frontline. There are Lots of americans and Other foreign Coaches Who train ukros in the back
This guy is incorrect. I have ppl who live in Donbass and they were banned from speaking Russian, banned from reading Russian books and were persecuted. Now just because he hasn't seen it does not mean it did not happen.
The women in Harkov who were executed by the Junta, for teaching Russian language at school, after their great "counteroffensive" last year...
And I have the opposite to you. I have pro-Urianian Russian speakers who experienced the violent oppression of pro-Ukrainian rallies in the region by illegal separatists and Russian troops. Let's also consider Russia's attempts over the centuries to suppress the Ukrainian language and culture and their delusion that Ukrainians and Russian are the same.
@@paulfenton734have you seen the genealogy paper that litteraly shows ukrainians and Russians have no genetic difference? The only thing that's diffrent is ukraine probably has a higher jewish population. That about it.
Sure Igor. Banned from speaking Russian. 🤣The second largest city Kharkiv which Russia bombed is mostly Russian speaking. You can hear people talking Russian in Kiev all the time. Banned my @ss.
@@paulfenton734 The Galichan Mova aka "Ukrainian language" is not native to Ukraine. It was introduced by force, via a decree from the Supreme Soviet of Ukrainska SSR in 1989. At least know what you are talking about!
Have anyone hear about the Colombian fighters that are complaining about not been paid and bad treatment by the Ukrainians?
Who cares about them ? They will be killed like rabid dogs .
@@Elatenl says the Ukrainoscumnazi
exactly @@Elatenl
So you care if it is an Australian or Uk fighter but if it is from Colombia you don’t care?
@@jacobopmno I think he is referring to mercs in general.
i wonder how many lpd/dpr members might be able to be apart of an interview like this..
id assume not alot but i think it could be alot of insight to "the other side"
They didn't live in Donbass under Ukraine after 2014 so what can they say. They were lied to. I lived there and I know that it was nothing like ruzzia was telling. Nobody was killing russians or shit.
Ukraine didn't make me leave my city and carry the corpses of my dead neighbors, ruzzia did
This.
The West pretends like the LPR/ DPR don't exist, and that it's just the Russian army vs the Ukrainian army, and not that it's a civil war.
Why would they want to do an interview with someone from a country who turned a blind eye during 2014-22 and actively supplied weapons to the people trying to kill them? This whole thing about Russia propaganda to me is hilarious as people are accusing the Russians of exactly of what Ukraine and our western media are also guilty of also.
Patrick Lancaster definitely the guy for that
Well, that was absolutely fascinating, in a multitude of ways. I've seen soldiers talk to each other before, and that is definitely what this was.
I'm glad you picked up on the Right Sector stuff, that tells us something about him. He is clearly a far right white supremacist. It's a curious transition from someone who started out wanting to fight for the YPG, but he himself says that he wanted to fight above all else, and loves the military barracks lifestyle. This is clearly a born soldier who would have loved to have been a Spartan. He is clearly committed to a thoroughly romantic view of the Ukrainian people, as diligent and hard working peasants who look askance at the Sodom & Gomorrah of their own cities. He's never seen any corruption, never seen any prisoners shot, never seen anything but disciplined stoicism from the Ukrainian herrenvolk.
And yet, as you remark, people were going to Ukraine for sex tourism even before the war, and it was very poor. There were plenty of down sides to the supposedly idyllic, bucolic, rural churchy lifestyle. He agrees that the cities were full of vice and sin, and criticises other foreign fighter for wallowing in them. The longer this went on, the more I though it was as if I were listening to the voice of an officer of the 22nd Panzer division Hitlerjugend. I mean that precisely. He praises the Right Sector recruits for the heroism and self-sacrifice, completely sincerely; he is almost certainly part of the Azov Battalion, as was, now Brigade. This is reinforced when he remarks that the Russians execute "our guys"; that is true, the Russians have a particular animus toward the Fascist units and their foreign volunteers.
So we should understand that this is a very particular of the situation, and a very ideological one. After all, if he's been involved in the white supremacist militias since his arrival, how much actual experience of the Ukrainian peasant does he actually have? None; this is obviously a highly ideological belief system into which he has been indoctrinated. He sees all the great virtues as exhibited by the ultra-nationalists, and Ukrainian nationalism is the single virtue he admires. Indeed, from his own mouth, he regards those who have a different allegiance as zombies, as something far less than conscious and human
Interesting remarks about the use of drones, I have been talking about that lately. Drones do look like a real change in the technical balance of war, and might well become even smaller and ubiquitous than they are now. They might become the primary antipersonnel weapon, bringing the dynamic of the air-to-air missile down the individual solder. If your weapons are very reliable, you only need to carry a few of them; and seeing as the enemy likely has similar weapons, you won't last long enough to need more than a few anyway.
I am glad you picked up on that.
Yep, this guy is one of the creeps who larp as SS Aryan Warrior 1488 because he thinks ethnic russian = Communist/ Untermensch.
This comment is Mental Illness summed up in a wall of text 😭😂😂
I also picked up on the Ultra-right vibes
@@Skovie1Ukraine has a really bad nazi problem
Seems all these blokes you interview just come on to whinge lol
Excellent interview. It covered a broad range of subjects with nuance and insight. No big words just sober analysis. Quality stuff.
12 minutes in and I've already got a feeling this guy isn't what he's saying he is.
hes not lying hes jusr confused
@@wadebrunner3724 you know that how?
After the years I followed the conflict I can see only see one side desperately Pushing the propaganda...
Which side is that then?
Russian Russian government made a mistake, after the bloody battle for Mariupol, the Russian authorities gave the captured soldiers of the Azov regiment, and foreign fighters to Turkey. With the condition that they will stay in Turkey until the end of the war. But Turkey released these soldiers, and they returned to Ukraine and are fighting again. This caused irritation in the Russian army. And now when Nazis or mercenaries are captured, the chance of being killed increases many times.
They wont be taken prisoner again they'll be executed.
Bad move by Erdogan. He's in the catbird seat, and somehow manages to piss off both sides.
russian propaganda
Russian government did a mistake by invading Ukraine in 2014
@@triggerwarning5762 But he knows Russia is a weak wannabe compared USA.
Great interview Willy, regardless of difference of opinion, I like how you do things and watch your shows every time you post. Thanks mate
Hahahah what a joke my dude. "No war crime here my guy, we treat russians like family"
Like the Odessa House of trade unions fire a few years ago: That was only due to, you know, electrical malfunctions inadvertently burning alive Ukrainians citizen speaking russian.
Well, Julius Caesar was family to Brutus...
Are you able to time stamp when the person being interviewed said that quote? I watched the video twice and couldn’t find it.
When american in Iraq said, "I fight for country", americans cheer him.
When russian in Ukraine says, "I fight for country", americans call him brainwashed.
Quess who's brainwashed. Americans.
At least Americans have a good excuse when they invade the country.
@@alenmorandl5104no excuse can cover the poor optics of waging wars of choice on the other side of the earth.
Found the Jew bolshevik
@@alenmorandl5104Bahahahaa, WMDs is a horrible excuse meanwhile the Western media literally covered how the pro-Russian population was abused by right-wing death squads. Ukraine's own courts sentence Tornado company which included Azov members for war crimes and these are just the ones that didn't get away.
@@alenmorandl5104 to kill, rob, plunder and vassal. Oh right good excuses.
What Ukrainian history aligned with his beliefs as an American?
Bingo!
Lol. Some people like to fight, they like chaos and destruction, they feel alive in that environment. They should just be honest with themselves, but they can't, the ego gets in the way.
Once you are in the military, you belong somewhere. You have a family, a purpose, a place in the group. Then you go back to normal life to work in a baskin Robbins. Of course they prefer to be mobilized.
He wants Ukraine to live under the Global American Empire. Have 6 year old Trans children and mass replacement migration.
Do they play bingo in Ukraine@@PikachooUpYou
Never seen the enemy, but we treat the POW'S well. One hour of bitching about guys he feels are not up to the task.
The irony that all the interviewees are doing the same thing they call others out for is evident in every one of these. Him : “they just want fame”, also him : “I just want to be remembered for this”
Maybe he meant by his family and not the world?
@@MichaelAngloson maybe you just haven’t been around enough sociopaths to know what one sounds like.
@@austinlevi3452some Go for Money also . They love Ukraine and can make some Action there. And also for some Fame when they Return Home But Who what Kind of Fame ? Only the Family will remember them . And maybe Friends. These are mostly es syria Guys Who what Action and Help ukraine.
big difference between wanting to be remembered for your genuine contribution vs exploiting a situation for immediate fame
This dude has taken the nato coolaid hard
Ok bot
And logically he has to pay the maximum penalty for that, his life he deserves to lose for killing foreigners in their countries. This murderous mercenary is the scum of the earth!
it’s an American thing. We were raised to hate Russia. PERIOD. If you’re under 30, you wouldn’t understand.
@@ElatenlHe paid for his class after he got the money from the...how you say...ATM.
nah you have taken the russkie coolaid
When this guy says the ideology of right sector ie nazi doesnt bother him thats when my respect for him vanishes.
You’d be surprised how flexible you become to your battle buddy’s beliefs when you rely on them to keep you alive my dude. After all, you don’t really have a choice once you’re in the Army. You are at the needs of the force.
@@Thrainite A lot of nazis in Russia proper and among Donbas Russians but of course those don't count.
You must really hate Putin and Russians then.
Respect.
In Donbas from 2014 has operated Rusich Group and Russian Imperial Legion who are neo-nazis of Russia with same kind of symbolism as Azov. Of course there are more Russian neo-nazis everywhere in Wagner etc. Existence of neo-nazis who are in pretty much every country is a good reason for invasion only for the biggest tools.
@@thegall7437 Anyone who views Ukraine as a conflict about anything other than geopolitics doesn’t have very many brain cells to rub together. After all, this conflict was foretold by many geopolitical analysts years prior to hostilities. I feel for Ukraine being a pawn in all of this, but it certainly isn’t because Russia has become a resurgent USSR. They are the wastrel remnants of that defunct polity trying to scratch out a fraction of their old standing and security for survival. The Russians know, probably more than Western Europe wants to admit, that they are on a demographic and economic clock. But that’s my opinion on the conflict as a whole.
I appreciate his honesty when he said he's never seen the enemy directly, though he got shelled by arti a lot. He is the tells it as it is kind a guy! Bravo!
Yeah but he tells it as it is out of his very brainwashed view
His experience is startling
1. no corruption? before the SMO Ukraine was thee most corrupt country in Europe,
2. the Ukranian military has actual Nazi's in their ranks, the Ukranian's idolizes Stepan Bandera....
3. The Pulitzer award winning journalist has written a insightful piece on the level and extent the Ukrnian corruption.
4. Why did UK block Russia's demand to investigate the "Bucha Masacre"?
please explain these realities.
He is a pawn, he doesn't see anything that he isn't shown. Just because he's there doesn't mean he knows what's happening behind the scenes. Imagine I took you to you to watch a movie, and I put your face right next to the movie screen, would you be able to see the movie? No. You wouldn't. Well, his face is right next to the movie screen, he's so close to the combat, that he doesn't see what's happening beyond the narrow picture he's shown. Primary sources like him are important, on the ground-reports are important, but know their limitations. This is guy is not an experienced theorist, he is a grunt. If you want to listen to people who know and understand what's happening, then listen to scholars like Seymour Hersh, John Mearsheimer etc.
This grunt would not last in a debate against any scholar.
Ukraine was indeed one of the most corrupt countries in the world but who controlled Ukraine during those days?
Most armies have Nazi's in their ranks
They are not realities but rather your own personal bias, as well as some authority bias. I was in Ukraine and I did not see any Nazis. No swastikas, no anti-semitism, no supremacist rhetoric. There were drunkards though.
all of theese problems like 1 and 2 are literally worse in russia. Russia has more N@zis than Ukraine ever had.
1) I doubt he had much exposure to political and commercial corruption, 2) So do the Russians, 3) who, 4) its being painstakingly documented (it's absurd to have Russian involvement).
Yo! Haven't had the opportunity to tune in in recent time, but I do hear your voice has recovered really well!
Thanks for the content you provide, it is invaluable in these times.
Stay safe and stay healthy, lots of love towards you and your family from germany
Makes you wonder about who these TH-camrs going over there with donations really are 🤔
Dude it goes into their pension scheme.
Willy thank you for this, i question some things he says. But then this is the beauty of your interview because you give chance for people to give voice and you don't interrupt them and let them speak out. amazing job like always.
Interesting interview. His comments with respect to Right Sector (he finds no fault in their members, who have been incorporated into his unit) suggest that his unit is one of the Right Sector Militias who were incorporated into the AFU following the 2019 elections.
The main guy for Right Sector is Dmytro Yarosh. He is a staunch Ukrainian nationalist, but his politics make it hard for the west to officially love him. He is very much against homosexuality, seeing the west as a decadent influence on Ukraine, and has vibrant anti semetic views. Despite being a big part of the 2014 coup de tat, he has disappeared from public view in recent years. Russia listed him as a terrorist, and for a while interpol included him on their list of undesirable folk, however he no longer seems to be classified as such. He claimed to be working as an advisor for the high command of the AFU in 2019, which has since been denied by them, however it is fairly likely he is working with the AFU in some capacity. He is popular with Ukrainian nationalists, and his organization has long standing ties with foreign military intelligence (since before 2014). In a way, he is much like the Ukrainian Prigozin.
Despite his popularity with the nationalist militias, he failed to win a seat in the 2019 elections, and received less than 1% of the vote across Ukraine. Presumably he is not keen on Poland stepping in to rescue western Ukraine from Russia, so that may explain why his units have not been deployed to the meat grinders on the eastern front.
If we are going to ultimately witness a partition of Ukraine, with the west joining Poland and the EU, and Russia taking the east from the Dnieper, Yarosh and his band of merry men are the largest obstacle to such a peace deal. He has no love for either Russia or the rainbow coalition of the selfie content creators, and so while he remains strong, Ukraine stays in the fight.
Imagine these people after the war with the sheer amount of weapons swilling about what’s left of that country
Also he mentions his friend serving in Carpathian Sith, another far-right unit
dude is anti semititic? BASED
Coup? lol so obvious to spot the brainworms
@@molonlabe420You mean it wasnt a coup?
Love hearing different soldiers perspectives great interview guys!!
I don't know, I'm hearing the same thing over and over, soldiers don't use the word "atrocities" without trying to find a better word for ruthlessness words. It amazes me how many people still believe countries can control privates at the front line actions, yeah warcrimes would be committed and no one has a clue who, the only things that going to be obvious when you see the same insignia like Azov.
Would soldiers from other countries like to be treated more humanely? They came to a foreign country to kill Russian guys. What kind of attitude did they expect?
russians came to ukraine to kill ukranians, what are they? :)
Every video/interview of a foreign mercenary in Ukraine has the same story - When shit got real and the Russians advanced, they ran away. Then they went home to the local pub and told stories of their bravery.
Great content willy, you work your arse off mate! 👍
Anonymizing vocals makes your content unbearable IMO. Let's be real, if someone is this afraid to be discovered, still serves while saying stuff like this; its not credible.
I lost all respect for the fighter when he said that nothing but respect for for the right sector. While I sympathise with Ukraine but this idea that the western countries have that boundaries of countries can’t be changed is stupid and hypocritical.
The west has changed boundaries themselves Serbia Kosovo
Israel Palestine and many more
Love Ukraine but yeah that's like asking for money while giving us the middle finger' the interviewee thinks we should support Ukraine and keep our mouths shut and not help them become more westernized' like what's the point of supporting them if they refuse to kick the cultural aspects that are in line with Russia.
I went to ukraine as a foreign volunteer, I went to a few front lines, i talked to many soilders, volunteers and survivors. I wanted to say, I agree with everything this soilder has said. His stories echo my experience and the experience of many of the people i worked with. These were my sentiments as well. Ukraine is not a western country, this is not a western war and should not bring our western opinions with us. It is not the ukranians who are corrupting this situation. Getting rid of corruption is part of what they are fighting for.
I understand what he means when he talks about the ego that comes with alot foreign volunteers , snapping a few pictures and returning as heros. I felt the same. WAR TOURISM. They go there to "play army" . Its exploiting these people for monetary gain and an ego boost and its all over the place. Yet none of it goes to help Ukraine.
The volunteers on the lines are the least funded and the least known about and very few in numbers. Most sit in Kyiv and play army.
I am very glad I came across this interview, because on every level I agree with everything you talked about.
I was not actually fighting, but i heard the same stories from many soilders who were.
Keep up the good work! They need more like you!
"i wanted to be someone, to be remembered"???
Holy crap, what an empty life....
Best dude you could’ve possibly had on the podcast to talk about Ukraine, thanks for having him on
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Except his story is BS. When was he training Pravyi Sektor, because I was one of the only foreigners under contract with Pravyi Sektor (ДУК), and his story doesn't add up.
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Great stuff Willy. Great to listen things from a real grunt on a field, thanks.
He needs to hide his identity so he cant be called out for the fake he is.
Do you prefer russian propaganda 🤔
Since you’re in Ukraine fighting, maybe you should tell us what’s going on
Wow. This guy is full of ish. Ive seen so many vids of Ukrn shooting unarmed civillans and unarmed PoWs. I've Russians giving cigarettes to Ukrn PoWs, and treating them with out aggression. The East voted in 2014 & 2022 overwhelmingly, to separate, 85-95%to be exact. They are culturally, linguistically Russian, going way back to census 2001. I thought we were supposed to let the will of the people decide their fate, like Hussein Obama said about Maidan. After the far roght met with J.McCain and V.Nuland installed the interim gov, and unconstitutionaly removed Yanocovych. Sick.
he was only there 3 years he doesnt k ow anything about the region
Would be interesting to see you build up your interviews, starting with the sight of these "soldiers" from the coup in 2014 until 2022, before the SMO started.
these soldiers from the west fighting in ukraine have no idea of what's really going on they are brainwashed by western media
He should interview Dejan Beric he is TH-camr that fought since 2014 and accepted few interviews of pro-western TH-camrs.
He sounds a bit squeaky clean to me Willy , but I suppose he could be fair dinkum although I doubt it .
Guy just assumes "they" destroyed the dam.
That is seriously debatable.
He's in a bubble of group think. Like most people.
US tax dollars are paying the salaries of 57k first responders as well as small business owners, farmers...
This guy got so mad about seeing that in a post.... maybe he should watch the September 25th airing of 60 Minutes.
There's something off with this guy. He's minimizing things we know the truth about.
i struggled to undertsand his voice - it was too distorted. Willy also didnt challenge him much.
Soldier complains about foreigners using the war for selfish monetary gain on a channel using the war for monetary gain. Got it
It is about political gains and geopolitical show. Hard truth they use freedom and democracy as reasons for war.
I fought for a little bit, one thing Ukraine taught me was how out of shape I was, and how you can overcome the fear of artillery.
It was a crazy experience
how was your two weeks?
You fought? I doubt it
@@thehamilton5678 more like 6 months but there was a lot of down time
@@RamblesBrambles ok?
If it is true that the country is 'ultra conservative' as this guy seems to think, then is it worth giving them billions of dollars while the working class in western countries suffer the worst wealth disparity ever? Pumping billions into countries to improve them doesn't work looking at the USA's history?
In any case, great enjoyable interview as always. I hope this madness ends soon.
Did you know that wealth disparities are not inherently good or bad?
The inconvenient reality is that this is also a country where everyone has access to public Healthcare
@@timothywoodard8766 not quite compatible to Scandinavian or Western Europe countries though. Sadly the US could learn more of looking after its own.
@@alphaclam you've got to be joking, you can't have multiple billionares taking over everything, whilst millionares try and persuade people in western standards of poverty that working more will mean you can be just like them. Trickle down economics just doesn't work, unfortunately humans are too greedy.
@@LouNYF it's not an or situation, we need to take care of our own and ne a benevolent player on the world stage. The world is more interconnected then ever and it is naive to believe we can throw others under the bus and get away scott free
@willyOAM love your channel, but you really could do better, than these click-bait video titles
Could you try once to reach out to the free Journalist Patrick Lancaster? I would love to see him once in your interview.
P.S. good job keep going 👍
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I should mention that my wife is from the east part of Ukraine and since day one, she prayed every evening that her homeland will break free from Ukraine suppression. Her Master graduation in Mathematics at Charkiw (XapkiB) University got rejected just because she wrote it in her native russian language. So maybe we should start to see that in every conflict, each side is convinced to do "the right the good" and the enemy is only "the bad and the evil".
It's so easy to totally forget that each side is convinced to have a righteous reason.
In my personal opinion I can only hope that there will be a revival of peace talks asap.
That will not happen as Willy would not take a chance of being booted from YT. I also think Willy falls in the camp of people that think Putin and Russia are evil and the USA/NATO are wonderful.
@@geoffreyveale7715 Biggest nation of little people in the world needs to grab more land. Defensive alliance tries to prevent that by helping a nation resisting Russian annexation/ethnocide. Hmm yeah, let me simp for bullied Putin here.
well yeah you might have a point there... @@Elatenl 🤔 anyway I think it could be interesting if he would interview and questioning him....
@@geoffreyveale7715 well yes you might surely have a point there... 🤔 anyway I think it could be interesting if he would interview and questioning him....
@@thegall7437 I totally understand your point of view. But, even if Ukraine will be able to re-anex all of the eastern teritories or even incl. Krimea with militairy forces, there will be no peace! This would lead definate to an kind of guerilla warfare. Like I experienced it myself in Afghanistan. How this ended we all know.... As I said; I know the area, I know the people, I have by my wife close family ties over there and I have seen with my own eyes how cheerful the population has been about their independence from Ukraine. No sorry but the endless death and destruction on both sides can only be solved by negotiations and not by always more weapons. Even if many of our western politicians (payed by the industial militairy complex like the german Strack-Zimmermann and others) try to make you belive it.... And last but not least I'm conviced that Putin is crazy enough to push the red button, if this is his last resort to safe Krimea (Not the big button,... but two or three smaller A-bombs... ? sure.)
No offence, but he speaks lots of nonsense. A merc who was searching for a war.
Willy breaking through the lies, with one Russian shovel at a time
But the guy he’s interviewing is a liar. That’s why he hides his identity.
True!!!
Another confused 17 year old looking for a fight.
Willy got his voice box fixed finally! Man i used to try to watch some of his stuff just out of admiration for an absolute trooper, sometimes the guy could hardly speak but he still made a video. That is dedication.
The poroshenkos that are getting rich, stop blurring issues. No one thinks the average Ukrainians are getting rich, it’s the rich oligarchs.
(I'm sure it's just a coincidence):
Adolf Heusinger, Hitler's Chief of Staff, became Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, 1961-1964
Hans Speidel, Rommel's Chief of Staff, became Commander in Chief of NATO Forces Central Europe, 1957-1963
Johannes Steinhoff, Luftwaffe fighter ace, became Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, 1971-1974
Johan von Kielmansegg, General Staff Officer Wehrmacht High Command, became NATO Commander Allied Forces Central Europe, 1966-1968
Ernst Faber, Lt Col Wehrmacht General Staff, became Commander in Chief NATO Forces Central Europe, 1973-1975
Karl Schnell, First General Staff Officer 76th Panzer Corps, became Commander in Chief NATO Forces Central Europe, 1975-1977
Franz-Joseph Schulze, Senior Lieutenant Luftwaffe, became Commander in Chief NATO Forces Central Europe, 1977-1979
So.. professionals in their field become commanders.. 15 years later? Your point?
Its normal, you can treat it just as a coincidence.
Wow I didn't know that
@@Girtuczi gee i wonder why russia doesnt trust nato.... we cant forget what the soviets did but hey they were nazis 15 years ago and its okay.....
@@Girtuczi NATO becomes Nazi, dude
@@Girtuczi only a person who has a simple mind and is completely propagandised would think it's a coincidence
How convenient he stays anonymous, so that no one can check his claims.
It is not the first time that happened on this channel.
That's because all this gentleman is interested in making money. He's a joke and has little to no solid information about what is going on inside Ukraine
9:21 when the war became a virtue signal for narcissists who crave attention
Everybody chooses their propaganda. There's plenty of it to go around.
His descriptions are also very accurate when applied to 95% of people posting support to Ukraine online.
this guy thinks he's one of the good ones
Pitch shift can easily be reversed. In case you didn't know .
You just have to make it 1.25x
It’s a stupid precaution anyway. Who does this guy think he is nobody is coming for him
I dont know where this guy fought. Honestly. Im american. Im in ukraine fighting. The fighting is very very close many times. Obviously artillary effecta everyone. But assaults are common place and whoever wins those assaults walks over the dead bodies of the other side. So i disagree with this guy.
I don't think that this man understands that the way he sees Russian people/soldiers is the way that the rest of the world sees western people/soldiers.
The guy may be from US, but his native language is definitely slavic. I can clearly hear it when he says words like "ideology".
Imposter maybe??
@@IAMJEFFREY-cw9ns To me he sounds like a westernized Russian, who lived a couple of years abroad and tightened up his English skills. Maybe bought on their propaganda and decided to fight for Ukraine. But that's just my impression.
@@arseniy_viktorovich That could very well be the case here. Yeah I've been around native Russians who lived in the west for a number of years and after time they adopt a different accent and they pick up the language quick. It's hard to tell with these mercenaries. He refers to America as the USA too. Most Americans just say America.
Lots of people from immigrant background enlist in the States
maybe a uktainian fighter
His downplaying of casualties really does a disservice to the public who may watch this while they are considering going to fight for ukraine. "lost tens of guys..." Wow really?
Feels like you're just interviewing those with unrealistic expectations! If you interviewed me after 7 yrs in 6RAR & HMAS Brisbane i would've been the same but others would have a different view!
Steel cat, fighting 41👍🏼
12:02 Money doesn't go to you on the field. Money goes to US politicians in Ukraine to pay them for doing all this.
this war like so many others just bad news for the people of the country its happening in. its one thing to see it on the news and another to be the friends or family of those people affected by it.
at the end of the Vietnam war my dad managed to help out some of his vietnamese friends families to get some to australia or france. the sad thing is how many he couldnt help. the effect the whole war had on that country that many here in Australia just will never understand.
this war even if it ends in a year or even 10 will affect Ukraine for decades.
Slava Ukraine, let peace come soon and those affected be helped out by the rest of us that have it way better for as long as it takes.
the pain of war doesnt stop just because the fighting has.
can you subtitle it please willy ? with an artificial intelligence if you want, just to give an idea. it's quite difficult to understand all the words with the voice modifier.
TH-cam has their own auto generated CC. Just hit the button on the video and it should pop up for you. I had the same issue with hearing him.
I recall Willy talking about constant flow of luxury foreign cars coming over the border into Ukraine, and he chalked it up to tax breaks….
Some are Diplomats , some buisenssmen or Mafia haha
In the start of the war , i think it was March or so Last year when a Mafia Gang in a black Car With ukro Plate Beat Up a Taxi Driver Who stood in a parking place in Front of a expensive Hotel. So some Young ukro men rather Go around and Beat people Then Fight for their country . Classic
Well nobody has ever said "the average Ukrainian" is getting rich Willy. Nobody. Has. Ever. Said. That.
It's the top 1% and the political elite of Ukraine profiteering, I don't think anybody has ever argued anything different.
Is this an advertisement every 5 minutes 😂😂😂
Yeah can't watch like this, I'll brake my phone...
Tried to travel join the YPG at 17? Yeah I doubt that. It would be a bad press to the YPG. The Kurds would never allow underage foreign volunteers. He's definitely a bullshitter. If he had bothered to read the air regulations rules. "Gate escort and guardian contact is required for those who are 15-17 years old"
This guy reads books of mercenaries, war tourism and seeks out conflicts and he calls other people out for doing the same thing as he is doing right now. He's definitely projecting which makes his statements even more unreliable.
Hi Willy,
You're doing a great job overall, I just wanted to correct you in regards to you saying that people think the average ukrainain is scamming them.
That is very far from the opinions I hold and others as well.
Those people are the real victims of this situation, what people mean when they say that Ukraine is laundering money is that the top 1% in the country, mainly the government, are not using the money they get for the purpose they claim to use it for.
There have been plenty of curroption scandals throughout this conflict, one is when the defense minister of ukraine bought bread for 100$ a piece, for the soldiers in the front lines.
Which continued for several months until he got "punished" and simply had his title change from ministry of defense to a different title..
That's why people like me, really don't believe the narrative that these people are trying to defend their country.
I'm part ukrainain myself, and yet I don't believe in these people whatsoever.
They've proven enough times to be lying to us, and at this point after so many lies I started believing the Russian story more.
As it made more sense and so far Russia lied much less...
I feel sadness for the average ukrainain and immense hatred to the people betraying those people.
Sorry mate but you are clearly wrong, misinformed or a rus-troll-bot!
The media told us that Ukraine had a massive corruption problem prior to the war. When the war started all corrupt officials changed their ways....
I’m very glad to come across a Ukrainian that is starting to see how his people are being used to hurt his own brothers. I’m not saying that everything Russia does is good, but the level of sick cynicism that the Western governments have for using people with a common religion, language and culture to kill each other for geopolitical aims is really unbelievable.
I’ve said to many Ukrainians, that when they find out how the Western governments have cynically used them, and when they find out about the knife they had behind their backs, that they were going to sell all Ukrainians into slavery to US corporations and banks, and worse, shove anti religious and anti traditional values down their throats in the event of a Ukrainian victory, even the most fanatical nationalist will throw himself at the feet of the Russians and will not let go until they sign a treaty promising never to step one foot outside of Ukraine ever again. That is how disgustingly evil and cynical the Western governments are
We need people like you to remain loving and patient and understanding towards Ukrainians and to begin to explain things calmly. Let them get angry and insult, but don’t flinch and don’t respond in kind. These are our brothers who are being mentally raped by people who could not care less about them