I personally have been preoccupied with the concern of the stay-behind networkification or the brownshirtification of the ultranationalist (para-/)militaries in the Ukraine.
I think there’s a serious risk of these groups deciding that the situation is lost and turning their interest and their weapons westward to destabilise other regions or even countries.
I worry that Azov et al. could become the nucleus for a European style ISIS. This would absolutely be in the interests of the US as it would reduce their near-peer competition in the EU and it would push them into the arms of the US military-industrial complex (pun absolutely intended.)
I make intentional reference to the stay-behind networks because this is really relevant to how I would see the role of these veterans and their influence/actions in Europe especially and potentially even beyond.
Weapons shipments to Ukraine have been skimmed since the beginning. Gladio 2.0…
They didn’t even bother to hide it. Within months if not weeks of the beginning of the SMO small arms ostensibly shipped to Ukraine were showing up in the middle east. I can’t remember where the article was now but last year sometime a Balt official was on record basically laughing about millions of euros of “missing” financial and weapons aid, saying everyone knows and nobody cares. This is absolutely a Gladio/ISIS/Mujahideen type scenario.
I guess that had links with secret military services of western countries… I mean how could this guy end up in Ukraine? It’s bit of mystery that how large amount of money was spent on these guys without EU and US ever noticing it. Angela Merkel with all her brains knew what the danger was but they all kept their mouth shut for US ambitions and “European values”.
