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Looking forward to a repeat of the 420th Epic Reddit Brigade immediately having their barracks bombed.
FUCK THESE FUCKING CLICK BAIT HEADLINES
Especially when followed up by outright lies in the short description.
Please do not reward this behavior with a click, as I have already fallen into that trap for you. It is a lie, it is not “French soldiers”, which would have MASSIVE implications for the future of that war and would initiate WWIII, but rather Ukrainian ones released to go home to flight:
In 2022 France had a number of Ukrainians and Russians in the Foreign Legion. They were allowed to leave the Legion and, in the case of the Ukrainians, return to Ukraine to join Ukrainian forces. It isn’t clear if the Russians returned home.
While the facts themselves tell quite a nice story, the manner in which this story was told royally pisses me off. I did not need to know that “They have been deployed in support of the Ukrainian 54th Independent Mechanized Brigade in…”, but much more important imho is how “France has sent its first troops officially to Ukraine” is misleading to the point of intentionally being deceptive - it is not “its first troops”, as if more will follow, and as if they were “French troops”, and as if they were “sent… officially to Ukraine” as the short description says, but rather as it says only after you click the bait, that they were “allowed to leave”, and some may even join on the side of Russia, which they did not even bother to find out.
I can only be baited by such things so many times before I lose my shit and start blocking news altogether. Which ofc has its own downsides. So instead, for now, I will at least call them out for their absolute, deceptive, full-on lying behaviors.
Evidently you have reading comprehension problems. Because the article isn’t discussing the Ukrainian troops from 2022, but the new foreign legion troops that are French troops.
France has sent its first troops officially to Ukraine. They have been deployed in support of the Ukrainian 54th Independent Mechanized Brigade in Slavyansk. The French soldiers are drawn from France’s 3rd Infantry Regiment, which is one of the main elements of France’s Foreign Legion (Légion étrangère).
Hey, please link more sources since the original source is some guys substack and the link he provided as a source is not working on either articles. I am unable to find this from any other source except the substack.
