Many of those sympathetic to Ukraine's cause writing in the Western MSM, broadsheets, are in fact Ukrainians living abroad, outside their country, to escape the call-up. I have met them.
They are sympathisers with Ukraine's cause, but who have fled the country to dodge the draft - but unlike Vietnam, they are not anti-war protesters. They are likely living on small incomes or the children of Ukraine's oligarch elite.
They are supported by the Ukrainian government, which means mostly Western taxpayers' money. Kiev, Zelensky and his backers, in return, expect sympathisers to write comments and to create and engage in numerous other activities supportive of war.
This is more than speculation, it is supported by statistics from the Immigration Dept.s of many European and third-world refugee destinations. These active cases are people mostly not in employment and whom we would call "trolls".
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21 August
I am coming to understand that some, most maybe, of these bloggers are in fact kids living outside Ukraine or Russia, dodging the draft, scared out of their wits, afraid, angry and many of them are just frozen with fear.
When you read their comments, you realise that they don't really have a lot to say. Their thinking is overwhelmed by these strong emotions, fears of what might happen, worries maybe of what has already happened to them or that they've witnessed.
When I look at the photos of those Ukrainians that were caught by the recruiters and assembled into fighting units, I see faces that are empty of any intelligence or just full of fear.
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