{"id":260416,"date":"2022-10-27T06:04:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T06:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=260416"},"modified":"2022-10-28T07:42:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T07:42:12","slug":"afghan-commandos-trained-by-allied-forces-are-being-recruited-by-russia-to-fight-in-ukraine-after-they-were-abandoned-by-the-west-when-country-fell-to-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=260416","title":{"rendered":"Afghan commandos trained by Allied forces are being recruited by RUSSIA to fight in Ukraine after they were abandoned by the West when country fell to the Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Up to 30,000 Afghan commandos were abandoned by the West last year<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Now they are being recruited by Russia to join in Putin&#8217;s faltering war effort<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It is believed the shadowy Wagner Group is behind the recruitment drive\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Jack Newman \u2013 Daily Mail Oct 26, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Afghan commandos who had been trained by Allied forces to fight the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/the-taliban\/index.html\"><strong>Taliban<\/strong><\/a> are now being recruited by Russia to fight in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Up to 30,000 members of the elite National Army Commando Corps were abandoned by the West when the country fell to the hardline Islamist group last year.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the US-trained light infantry force that fought side by side with allied troops for nearly 20 years could be joining Vladimir <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/vladimir_putin\/index.html\"><strong>Putin<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s savage war effort.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed the shadowy Wagner Group is behind the recruitment drive, exploiting the jobless commandos.<\/p>\n<p>An ex-official told <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2022\/10\/25\/afghanistan-russia-ukraine-military-recruitment-putin-taliban\/\"><strong>Foreign Policy<\/strong><\/a>: &#8216;I am telling you [the recruiters] are Wagner Group. They are gathering people from all over.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;[The Afghan commandos] would be better used by Western allies to fight alongside Ukrainians. They don&#8217;t want to fight for the Russians; the Russians are the enemy. But what else are they going to do?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Many say they have been contacted via WhatsApp and Signal with offers to join the Russian &#8216;foreign legion&#8217; in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Senior military and security officials in Afghanistan fear as many as 10,000 soldiers could be tempted to join, because they have &#8216;nothing to lose&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Only a few hundred senior officers were evacuated by the US in the dramatic withdrawal from Kabul in August 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Many Afghan soldiers fled to neighbouring countries and others went into hiding fearing reprisals from the Taliban for their loyalty to the collapsed government and the West.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11356165\/Afghan-commandos-trained-Allied-forces-recruited-RUSSIA-fight-Ukraine.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West, in particular America, tends to drop allies when it no longer needs them. That&#8217;s what it did when it abandoned 30,000 Afghan Special Forces for the Taliban. Now Russia ie reportedly recruiting them to fight in Ukraine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":179092,"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":[60,91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Afghanistan","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260416","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=260416"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260429,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260416\/revisions\/260429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/179092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}