“I’m not going to allow our guys, my guys’ efforts and blood to go towards [the war],” he said. For its part, the DHS did not respond to multiple emails from the Guardian on whether it was continuing to track rightwing extremists traveling to Ukraine. Kent McLellan, a Floridian who worked with Pohlhaus and is known by the alias “Boneface”, was outed for lying about his Ukraine war bonafides over the summer. after newsletter promotionJoshua Fisher-Birch, an analyst of the extreme right for the Counter Extremism Project, has kept tabs on rightwing extremists and their fascination with Ukraine. The threat of law enforcement has also acted as a major deterrent to rightwing extremists trying to join the Ukrainian war effort.

Source: The Guardian January 11, 2024 20:15 UTC