British investigator Graham Phillips – he is decidedly not a journalist, since he is actually honest, competent, and independent-minded – sat down for a chat with Aiden Eslin, aka “Cossackgundi”, the British mercenary captured by the Russians in Mariupol’ last week. This is an interview that Mr. Eslin himself requested, as he states plainly at the end of the discussion.
It is well worth watching (or listening to) the whole interview. Mr. Phillips isn’t entirely impartial in his questioning, but he doesn’t need to be. Unlike his Limey-bastard former so-called “colleagues” among the British whorenalist and presstitute class – the whole LOT of which should be HANGED on sight – Mr. Phillips is an investigator, not a journalist. As such, he asks hard questions to try to figure out what is actually going on. And in this interview, he does ask some hard questions of “Cossackgundi”.
What I take away from this interview is that the Ukie commanders have absolutely no regard for the lives of their men – whether regular forces, Marines, SpecOps, mercs, or Banderistas. Today the Ukies broadcast a video from the Azovstal factory itself, wherein someone named “Serhiy Volyna” (Sergei, to the Russians) issued a final desperate appeal to the world to evacuate their remaining people to safety in a third country:
This video has gone all over the world. The Ukies say that this chap is a Marine commander from the 36th Marine Brigade. The Russians say that he is an Azovite. I am, unsurprisingly, inclined to go with the Russian narrative. What he has to say puts to the sword the nonsense peddled by Western presstitutes that there are “only” 500 or so defenders left in Azovstal. The Russians put the remaining numbers at 1,500-2,000, and I have seen estimates as high as 4,000.
Whatever the true number is, I do not doubt Mr. Volyna’s assertion that they have days, perhaps only hours, left to live.
The Russians have surrounded Mariupol’ in a ring of steel and are bombarding the Azovstal compound with a truly terrifying amount of firepower. This is precisely what they said they would do. They have also extended the time window for surrender to the remaining Azovites and Marines in that facility – if they surrender, they will live. The Banderites will be found, arrested, and taken to Russia to stand trial for war crimes – as they should be.
All of this points to a fundamental truth in Mr. Eslin’s statements above:
The Ukies, not the Russians, are the “baddies” in this war.
Don’t get me wrong, I am deeply upset that the Russians invaded Ukraine. But I understand why they did it, and I support their reasons, even as I am horrified by what they have to do to the Ukrainians in order to secure their own country.
The Russians are not saints, assuredly. They are not white knights coming in to rescue the Ukies. But they are light years better, in moral terms, than anything that the Banderistas can offer.
Mr. Eslin will likely stand trial for his mercenary activities at the hands of the DNR. It is up to them whether he lives or dies. If he lives, he will be exceedingly fortunate, because mercenaries are not covered by the Laws of War to the same degree as regular soldiers – they fight for no flag, they observe no code of honour, they are sellswords. And historically, sellswords have largely been summarily executed for their treachery.
I take a simple lesson away from Mr. Eslin’s story: you and I are all responsible for our own choices, and we can and should be held responsible for them at all times.
I am where I am because I put myself there, through my own choices. The same applies to you. Maybe you are not where you want to be – I know how that feels, trust me. But ultimately, you have to choose to do something about it and change your circumstances.
This will be easier for some than for others. But if you make the wrong choices, you will inevitably pay a terrible price. Mr. Eslin was fooled into making terrible choices, and he will now pay the price, as he should.
Let us hope that the remanding authorities in the DNR will be merciful. But, if they are not… let their judgement serve as a lesson to those who thought that they could go to Ukraine and kill a bunch of “snow-niggers”, take some heroic selfies, and go home. This tool, for instance, would be well advised to take note:
I’m not kidding about him being a tool. Watch this:
Quite a few former swabbies read my work. That guy used to be in the US Navy, apparently. PLEASE tell me he doesn’t represent the rest of your branch!
The lesson, as always, remains the same: you will be judged for your choices, one way or the other. Choose ye therefore well and wisely.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot to include this one. It’s apropos of literally nothing, other than the fact that it’s kind of funny in a very stupid and crass way, and that it connects to the main image up top:
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Graham Phillips is not a journalist. He may be an investigator. What I took away from this was that he may not be a neutral party.
There’s a line between asking hard questions and letting someone speak, and being their inquisitor or browbeating them. Phillips crossed it more than once, and spent a good deal of time leading the subject to follow the designated script. I like it no better here than I do in other contexts. Worse, actually, given the man’s position of helplessness. If you want to interrogate prisoners, put on a uniform that you’re entitled to wear and practice that specialty legitimately.
Now, Aiden agreed to the interview. He’s lucky to be alive, since he could by all rights just be executed as an unlawful combatant, and the Russians moreover said they would do so. I don’t know if I’d consider the interview entirely voluntary, but this is part and parcel of owning your own choices. He’s in a very difficult situation, and is playing such cards as he has.
Reasonable evidence does point to the Ukrainians not being the good guys here, and the interview is a source of information. But there’s a fair bit that I dislike about it.
I am less bothered by it. I grew up watching Tim Sebastian on BBC’s HARDTalk, back in the day, and his interviewing style was MUCH more confrontational than anything Graham Phillips did. I thought that he did resort to prompting his interviewee a bit at various points, but I know that this is what British interviewers are like, in general.
Malcolm Nance was a ‘crypto specialist’, which means RM fag diversity hire.
His job, was to take any news reports from fleet, trim off any meaningful information, and spin it for ‘ship newsletters’. He spent his time in an air-conditioned office, usually on a shore command, spinning propaganda, lies, and half-truths for ‘morale’. An easy route to chief for anyone allergic to work and the truth.
Which meant he was perfectly trained to move to MSNBC to accept incoming news, trim off any meaningful information, and sit in an office spinning propaganda, lies, and half-truths for ‘morale’.