Russia 🇷🇺 is Recruiting People in Nepal 🇳🇵
(These are the flags of both Russia 🇷🇺 and Nepal 🇳🇵.)
This is sort of a companion piece to the article that I just posted about the Nepalese Civil War 🇳🇵 AKA Nepali Civil War 🇳🇵, even though this isn't about the civil war per se. I just thought of this just now, and I would've normally just edited into the post in the note section. But, I couldn't find a place to put it, and still have the note read and flow organically. So, I'm just making its own post. While, Nepal 🇳🇵 hasn't really been on the news these days, at least, in the West, Russia 🇷🇺 has been in the news a lot lately.
I mean, Russia 🇷🇺 kind of disappeared from the headlines for a while because of the war in Gaza and all the crazy stuff happening in the Middle East, but it's back in the news again. Whether it's the infamous Putin interview that Tucker Carlson did a week ago, whether it's Tucker Carlson pushing even more Russian propaganda 🇷🇺 by visiting a grocery store in Moscow and talking about how it's better than American grocery stores 🇺🇸 and how he's been "radicalized" against the United States 🇺🇸. Whether it's Tucker Carlson visiting Dubai in the UAE 🇦🇪 and being interviewed about the interview he did with Putin, and saying that Russia 🇷🇺 is way better than the US 🇺🇸, and it's okay for Putin to kill journalists and kill political dissents because that's what good leaders do apparently. In Tucker's little twisted world. Or whether was Russian opposition leader 🇷🇺, Alexei Navalny dying under suspicious circumstances while being imprisoned inside a penal colony in the Arctic region of Russia 🇷🇺.
Russia 🇷🇺 is on America 🇺🇸's mind right now, and they're being reminded about how awful of a leader Vladimir Putin truly is, and how awful of a journalist Tucker Carlson is. Calling Tucker Carlson a journalist is a bit too generous. He's not a journalist, he's a political pundit, but more than that, he's a propagandist and a sucker for the Kremlin. He truly is a Russian asset 🇷🇺, and a useful idiot as many in the media have labeled him as.
To me, Tucker Carlson is a traitor and an enemy of the state, and is completely un-American 🇺🇸. He should just cut to the chase and move to Russia 🇷🇺, instead of coming back here after he spent the last two weeks bad mouthing the US 🇺🇸 and talking about how great Russia 🇷🇺 is and how great Putin is, and just generally spewing Kremlin talking points. Which is funny because Putin apparently didn't even like the interview that Tucker Carlson did with him, and thought he was weak. So, not even Tucker Carlson's hero, Putin isn't a fan of him. Either way, if he truly loves Russia 🇷🇺 as much as he says he does, and if he truly hates America 🇺🇸 as much as he says he does, then he should just move there and live for the rest of his life. I'm sure Steven Seagal will keep him company. He can even interview him.
Anyway, Tucker Carlson and Navalny's tragic death aside, the reason I'm writing is tell you that Russia 🇷🇺 is apparently recruiting people in Nepal 🇳🇵 to fight in the war in Ukraine 🇺🇦. I first heard about this from watching an NHK World video on YouTube. For those that don't know, NHK is a Japanese public broadcaster 🇯🇵 that produces a lot of news and educational content. NHK World is their international branch, and they produce news and educational content for English speakers.
The YouTube channel I'm subscribed to is called NHK WORLD-JAPAN 🇯🇵. They talk about Japanese domestic news 🇯🇵 as well as world news. They focus on news going around in Asia, but sometimes they'll cover stuff outside of Asia like the war in Ukraine 🇺🇦 or the war in Gaza or the tensions between Venezuela 🇻🇪 and Guyana 🇬🇾. Yes, I know the Middle East is technically apart of Asia, but it is considered a distinct place from North Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia. Anyway, they did a video about Nepalis 🇳🇵 being recruited by the Russians 🇷🇺 to fight in the war in Ukraine 🇺🇦.
Basically, the Russian army 🇷🇺 has been hiring Nepalese men 🇳🇵♂︎ to work as mercenaries in the war in Ukraine 🇺🇦. These men ♂︎ would sign contracts with the Russian army 🇷🇺, and then they'd be sent to the frontlines in Ukraine 🇺🇦, where they usually die because the death rate or likelihood of death in the war in Ukraine 🇺🇦 is extremely high for a soldier or mercenary fighting on the Russian side 🇷🇺. Like, if you're fighting for the Russians 🇷🇺 and you're sent to the frontlines, then you're probably going to die. Like, 9 times out of 10 those who fight for Russians 🇷🇺 will be killed on the frontlines. It's pretty much a death sentence.
But, these are desperate men ♂︎ who need money to support themselves and their families back home in Nepal 🇳🇵, and the Russian military 🇷🇺 just targets these vulnerable men ♂︎ when they're at their lowest point in their lives and just sends them into the meat grinder that is Ukraine 🇺🇦. While the video by NHK WORLD-JAPAN 🇯🇵 mostly focuses on just one of these Nepalese mercenaries 🇳🇵, a guy ♂︎ named Pitam Karki, he isn't the only one. There are plenty of others who have joined the Russians 🇷🇺 to fight in Ukraine 🇺🇦, and never came back because they died on the field, they were killed in action.
Nepal 🇳🇵 isn't even the only country that Russia 🇷🇺 has been doing this with. They've been doing this sort of thing with Syria 🇸🇾, recruiting Syrian mercenaries 🇸🇾 to fight in the war, with Kazakhstan 🇰🇿, with Uzbekistan 🇺🇿, and with Cuba 🇨🇺, they've been straight up abducting people in Cuba 🇨🇺 to fight in Ukraine 🇺🇦. The reason why Russia 🇷🇺 is doing this is pretty simple: They're running low on soldiers. They're running out of soldiers to continue fighting in Ukraine 🇺🇦, and they can't recruit or mobilize enough people to replenish their numbers.
But, they don't want draft or mobilize too many people because they're trying to avoid drafting ethnic Russians, especially those that live in the European part of the country, and live in the big cities, Moscow and Saint Petersburg. They're trying to keep the war from reaching them, even though it kind of is ever since Ukraine 🇺🇦 has been striking deep inside Russia 🇷🇺 with drone attacks.
So, they'd rather draft the ethnic minorities, the ones that live in the republics like Buryatia, Dagestan, and Tuva. But, even the ethnic minorities are starting to get angry and upset about being sent to fight and die in Ukraine 🇺🇦 at a disproportionate rate compared to ethnic Russians, so they can't tap into that well anymore. They've also been recruiting prisoners to fight in the war, especially the Wagner Group, which mainly recruited prisoners. But, even that tap's running dry too. There are only so many prisoners you can recruit or conscript to fight and die in Ukraine 🇺🇦. So, hiring foreigners in other countries to fight in the war in Ukraine 🇺🇦, or kidnapping people to fight in the war in Ukraine 🇺🇦 in the case of Cubans 🇨🇺, has become one of the Russian military 🇷🇺's main methods of getting more soldiers, getting more meat to send into the meat grinder.
It is sad, that the Russians 🇷🇺 are doing this to people in other countries, and it's sad that they even have to resort to these methods to increase the amount of soldiers they have on the field. But, the fact that they do kind of shows that this war really isn't all that sustainable for the Russians 🇷🇺. They can't actually keep this up forever, and eventually, they will reach a breaking point, where they will just lose the ability to conduct the war, and will be forced to stop. That's only good takeaway from all this, that it shows how weak Russia 🇷🇺 actually is, and it shows that they're actually losing rather than winning.
The good news is that Nepal 🇳🇵 itself doesn't support the war in Ukraine 🇺🇦. The Nepalese government 🇳🇵 has come out against the war, and has criticized Russia 🇷🇺 for invading Ukraine 🇺🇦 and criticized the way Russia 🇷🇺 has conducted itself throughout the war in Ukraine 🇺🇦 since 2022. They've voted for every UN Resolution 🇺🇳 that has condemned the Russian invasion 🇷🇺, and they've urged their own citizens not to take part in the war. That's all very admirable, good on the Nepalese government 🇳🇵, even if some of their citizens are obviously not heeding their warning. But, anyway, I just felt that I would post this since it's about Nepal 🇳🇵, and I posted a whole thing about Nepal 🇳🇵 and the civil war happened there 18 years ago. You can watch the NHK WORLD-JAPAN 🇯🇵 for yourself down below.
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Here's the video:
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Update (Sunday February 18, 2024):
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I should've mentioned this in the main post, but I couldn't find anywhere to put it, and have it still read naturally, but Tucker Carlson interviewing Vladimir Putin is tantamount to back in 2020, during the Democratic primary, when Tulsi Gabbard interviewed Bashar al-Assad while on the campaign trail. She interviewed a dictator who started a civil war in his own country, gunned down his own people, bombed his own people, and used chemical weapons ☣️ on his own people in order to cling to power by all means necessary, just to get "his side of the story."
Not to mention the fact that Assad is a Putin ally, and he received help from Putin to defeat the pro-democracy rebels and hold onto power. Assad by all accounts is a horrible guy and pretty much a criminal just like all dictators are. Syria 🇸🇾 would be a significantly better place without Assad or his regime there. But, Tulsi Gabbard interviewed him anyway, and tried everything she could to make him look good and seem like a misunderstood leader and a victim, while she was running for president. That's what Tucker Carlson's interview of Putin was like. It was an interview of a ruthless and murderous criminal dictator conducted with the intention of making that horrible dictator look good and to brainwash their own audiences back in America 🇺🇸, and it was conducted during an election year. The only difference here is that he isn't running for president like Tulsi Gabbard was.
Just like Tucker's interview of Putin, Tulsi's interview of Assad was a fluff interview. All of the questions she asked him were softball questions, and she really didn't challenge him on anything, or ask any tough questions, and just believed everything he said because she already liked him and already believed that he was an innocent man ♂︎ who was being wrongfully accused of war crimes by the United States 🇺🇸 and its allies. She went into the interview with her mind already made up, with the conclusion already in her head, and she conducted that interview specifically to make Assad look good, and seem like a victim.
But, Assad isn't the only dictator that Tulsi likes. She also likes Putin, and came out in support of him and Russia 🇷🇺 when they invaded Ukraine 🇺🇦. She was pushing the false narrative that Russia 🇷🇺 was completely justified in invading Ukraine 🇺🇦 because of NATO expansion. She also amplified the conspiracy theories about there being bio-labs ☣️ in Ukraine 🇺🇦, and that being enough of a justification for Russia 🇷🇺 to attack Ukraine 🇺🇦. Needless to say, if someone supports a dictator, especially one that Putin and his regime support, then it's very likely that they also support Putin himself. She is as every bit of a Russian asset 🇷🇺 (and also a Syrian asset 🇸🇾) and useful idiot as Tucker is.
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