Focus brought up this story here in the AM.
To sum it up....they say that some 'right-wing' enthusiasts of Germany are packing up and going to volunteer for the war in the Ukraine....their 'foreign legion' concept.
BS-meter: 7.
There is a German law about participating in a civil conflict elsewhere and attempting to come back....remember those ISIS idiots who went to the 'big' war in Syria? So you'd be inviting problems later.
This all being factual? I would imagine part of this is BS via social media....people talking about going, but never going to the last step of leaving.
One odd factor, if someone says these folks are 'right-wing'....that typically means they are pro-Russia (I know....it makes no logical sense).
There are Ukrainians in Germany, and I could see a hundred of them going back to participate in the war. From ethnic Germans? I just can't see many of them doing this.
So I tend to see this as a some small group (maybe a dozen folks) who hyped up their adventure via social media, and the German politicians getting all tense that it might be a thousand of them.
Just a suggestion....there needs to be some new term to use instead of 'right-wing' because it leads typically to the AfD Party, which seems to be funded in someway by Putin-friendly folks. Maybe 'Putin-wing'?
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