Foreign Fighters and the Ukraine Blowback — Lessons from Syria and Iraq

Whatever happened to Ukraine’s foreign fighters? What are the parallels between Syria and Ukraine? And where does the Cold War against China fit into it? 

To discuss this and more, Rania Khalek was joined by investigative journalist Seth Harp, a contributing editor for Rolling Stone and author of the forthcoming book The Delta Force Murders, which will be published by Viking Press.

Seth’s articles discussed in the episode:

https://theintercept.com/2022/06/30/ukraine-azov-neo-nazi-foreign-fighter/

https://harpers.org/archive/2022/07/searching-from-the-ukrainian-foreign-legion/ 

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/09/19/putting-ukrainian-battle-successes-into-cold-hard-perspective/ 

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