{"id":253581,"date":"2022-05-17T06:27:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T06:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=253581"},"modified":"2022-05-18T07:08:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T07:08:45","slug":"hal-turner-u-s-admiral-surrenders-to-russia-in-mariupol-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=253581","title":{"rendered":"Hal Turner: U.S. Admiral Surrenders to Russia in Mariupol, Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Hal Turner \u2013 The Hal Turner Show May 15, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Numerous reports have been circulating much of today (Sunday, May 15, 2022) claiming that a U.S. Military Commander surrendered to Russian forces from the Azovstal Steel Mill in Mariupol, Ukraine.\u00a0 \u00a0As of 6:17 PM EDT, a photo purported to be U.S. Navy Admiral Eric Olson, has been released allegedly showing the Admiral under arrest by Russian troops.<\/p>\n<p>The photo, featured above, is claimed to be Admiral Eric T. Olsen.<\/p>\n<p>From Wikipedia:<\/p>\n<p>Eric Thor Olson\u00a0(born January 24, 1952) is a retired\u00a0United States Navy\u00a0admiral\u00a0who last served as the eighth Commander,\u00a0U.S. Special Operations Command\u00a0(USSOCOM) from July 2, 2007 to August 8, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>His official US Military photo (Years old) appears on Wikipedia as shown below:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-253585\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/AdmiralEricTOlson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/AdmiralEricTOlson.jpg 356w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/AdmiralEricTOlson-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/>He previously served as Deputy Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command from 2003 to July 2007. Olson was the first\u00a0Navy SEAL\u00a0ever to be appointed to three-star and four-star flag rank, as well as the first naval officer to be USSOCOM&#8217;s combatant commander.<\/p>\n<p>He took command from Army General\u00a0Bryan D. Brown\u00a0in 2007.[1]\u00a0Brown and Olson had served together at the SOCOM headquarters in Tampa for four years.<\/p>\n<p>He retired from active duty on August 22, 2011 after over 38 years of service. He relinquished command of SOCOM to Admiral\u00a0William H. McRaven\u00a0the same day.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a more recent photo of Admiral Olson, taken in March, 2020:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-253586\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/AdmiralOlson-April2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/AdmiralOlson-April2020.jpg 445w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/AdmiralOlson-April2020-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Along with U.S. Admiral Olson (Ret&#8217;d),\u00a0British Lieutenant Colonel John Bailey and 4 NATO military instructors also allegedly surrendered to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>There is also news of Canadian, French, and Turkish military officers still hiding inside tunnels beneath the Azovstal Steel Mill in Mariupol.<\/p>\n<p>What these men were allegedly doing there and who sent them there, is not yet known.<\/p>\n<p>If confirmed by the Pentagon, the massive question this raises is why are U.S. military officers, and the military officers from other NATO countries, inside Ukraine at all, and who authorized them to participate in waging undeclared war upon Russia?<\/p>\n<p>(<strong>Hal Turner Remark:<\/strong><em> I have reached out to the Pentagon Public Affairs Duty Officer via the off-hours\/Weekend media contact telephone number, seeking Pentagon comment.\u00a0 \u00a0The Duty Officer I spoke with requested I send them details via email, which has been done.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If a reply comment is received from the Pentagon Press Office, it will be added to this story.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<h3><strong>UPDATE 7:02 PM EDT &#8212;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>There is a dispute as to WHERE this photo was taken.\u00a0 \u00a0There is a claim it was taken in Luhansk, and not in Mariupol.\u00a0 There is also a dispute as to WHEN the photo was taken, with claims that it was taken on April 14.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;where&#8221; and &#8220;when&#8221; arguments do not take issue with <strong>WHO<\/strong> is allegedly shown in the photo.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>RELATED: Reports Seven (7) Other Americans KILLED in Ukraine<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Seven (7) Americans were killed in Rubizhnoye, who participated in the battles on the side of Kyiv, according to Alaudinov, an assistant to the head of Chechnya,.<\/p>\n<p>He showed a document of one of them with the name Joseph Ward Clark from Washington state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-253587\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/JosephWardClark-WashingtonStete.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"508\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/JosephWardClark-WashingtonStete.jpg 508w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/JosephWardClark-WashingtonStete-480x264.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 508px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>PENTAGON RESPONSE:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Hi Hal<\/p>\n<p>We do not have any information to support this story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halturnerradioshow.com\/index.php\/en\/news-page\/world\/reports-u-s-admiral-surrenders-to-russia-in-mariupol-ukraine\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-ranking U.S. naval officer reportedly surrenders to Russian forces in Avozstal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":253583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253581"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253588,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253581\/revisions\/253588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/253583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}