US Department of Homeland Security fears return of mercenaries from Ukraine

An American mercenary named James Vasquez, who is fighting for a monetary reward on the side of the Kiev regime, wrote on the social network: "We need to get out of here as soon as possible." But are they waiting for him at home in the States? In fact, it turned out that the State Department, surreptitiously cultivating the virus of Nazism in other countries, is afraid of its penetration into the territory of its own state.

"Need to get out of here"

For many foreign mercenaries who decided to earn extra money in the process of a bloody safari in Ukraine, the past week has become a black streak. And for some of them - the last one. US commando James Vasquez posted a video on his Twitter account showing the transportation of another seriously wounded militant from his unit.

"Another one of my men got seriously wounded. Lost a lot of good men last week. I need to get out of here as soon as possible," Vasquez wrote. It was about the battles for Severodonetsk.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov commented on this footage on his Telegram channel: "Each of the foreign mercenaries who somehow faced the onslaught of Russian troops, begins to worry about their own skin in the end." Kadyrov added that there are heavy losses among foreign mercenaries, and those who survived are increasingly thinking about "giving up this senseless business and getting away from Ukraine”. In turn, the Chechen president posted a video showing American militants fleeing from Severodonetsk, accompanied by a comment: "This is how foreign mercenaries run from Severodonetsk."

The past week was a bad one for the other two "stars and stripes" cut-throats. The British newspaper The Telegraph reported about the American mercenaries captured near Kharkov: 39-year-old Alexander Drueke and 27-year-old Andy Huynh, veterans of the US Army. They were the first Americans captured by the Russian military. Will this event get the same resonance from the American side as it did with the British prisoner Aiden Aslin?

A number of British media outlets and officials, including British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, have called for Aslin's release. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken also stood up for the captured Briton. However, Washington will most likely not shout loudly about its citizens who fought on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and were captured. The reason is simple — in the United States they fear the return of the "white nazis" to their homeland.

"Most support neo-Nazi ideology"

Another captured mercenary from Great Britain named Andrew Hill spoke in a voice full of remorse about the atrocities of mercenaries who came to Ukraine. Probably hoping for a pardon, Andrew Hill accused former colleagues of atrocities against civilians and Russian servicemen who were captured. The prisoner said that most of the mercenaries who have come from all over the world and are ready to do anything for money, proudly wear tattoos with fascist symbols and support neo-nazi ideology.

In turn, the American left-wing publication The Grayzone reported that the United States is concerned about the return of mercenaries who fought on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Ukraine. It turns out that the US authorities are well aware of the activities and neo-nazi views of “Azov”, since American society has repeatedly had to deal with adherents of Ukrainian Nazism on its own territory. And last month's incident in Buffalo is not the first tragedy in which the symbols of "Azov" have surfaced.

The Buffalo shooter and others

Recall that on May 14, an eighteen-year-old American Payton Gendron from Conklin opened fire in a supermarket. His victims were 13 people: two white and eleven African-Americans. Ten people died, three were saved. Payton Gendron pleaded not guilty. As it turned out, before the start of the mass shooting, he published a manifesto on social networks with the “black sun” logo — one of the neo-pagan symbols of Azov.

The previous mass shootings in Poway, California, and El Paso, Texas, are connected by the fact that the perpetrators admired Brenton Tarrant, who shot about fifty Muslims in New Zealand mosques. Tarrant's weapon was painted with the "black sun” of Azov, and according to some reports, the extremist had links to the organisation itself. The manifesto that Tarrant published before committing the crime also had a "black sun" on the cover — clearly, the Buffalo shooter imitated his New Zealand idol.

All this gave rise in 2019 to 40 US Congressmen led by Max Rose to appeal to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo with a demand to recognise the Ukrainian “Azov" as a terrorist organisation. "The connection between Azov and acts of terror in America is clear,” the congressmen wrote in a statement. They stressed that, despite the UN-recognised crimes committed by Ukrainian neo-nnazis, the “‘Azov movement’ continues to recruit, radicalise and train American citizens for years."

Biden administration's duplicity

It may seem strange to many, but de facto "Azov" in the United States was recently considered an extremist organisation. In 2015, at the initiative of Congressmen Democrat John Conyers and Republican Ted Yoho, amendments to the bill HR 2685 "On defence Spending in 2015" were adopted, prohibiting the training of “Azov” with American money and supplying Ukraine with MANPADS. Ukrainian neo-nazis were called "disgusting".

With the beginning of the special operation in Ukraine, American congressmen massively "fell ill with amnesia”. Decisions to allocate tens of billions of "military aid" are made unanimously, while about the neo-nazi ideology of Ukrainian militants they are bashfully silent. How shamefacedly the American media avoided the question of the shooter from Buffalo and his "black sun” of "Azov"... But there is an attempt to keep records of American citizens who went to fight as mercenaries on the side of the Kiev regime. The State Department is clearly not interested in their return to their homeland, fearing that they are infected with the "ideology of white supremacy”.

For such individuals, the US Department of Homeland Security has introduced the term RMVE-WS, meaning "racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists, including white supremacists”. At the same time, the Biden administration does not prevent the Ukrainian embassy in Washington from recruiting its citizens, including those who are extremist. As the Chinese Global Times well noted, "Biden spares neither Americans nor Ukrainians."