This kook was obsessed with answering the West’s relentless clarion calls on Ukraine. No one should be surprised at this outcome.

For the second time in as many months, the FBI has confirmed that someone tried to assassinate former (and potentially future) US President Donald Trump – this time while he golfed at his Florida home, Mar-A-Lago, on September 15.

The suspect has been widely identified as Ryan Wesley Routh of Hawaii via North Carolina and (more recently) Kiev, where he was keen to jump aboard the bandwagon rolled out by Washington and Ukraine. Clearly a bit too keen.

In an interview from Ukraine for Newsweek in 2022, Routh said he initially went there to fight. “Everyone around the world should be motivated to come here and support the Ukrainians,” he said, echoing official Washington at the time, and explaining that because he was 56 years old with no military experience, he wasn’t an “ideal candidate” for cannon fodder. So he proceeded to his “Plan B”, which was to mobilize other fighters from around the world on behalf of Ukraine to become cannon fodder.

By the following year, the US-based media outlet, Semafor, was describing Routh as the “head of the International Volunteer Center in Ukraine, a private organization which helps foreigners seeking to assist the war effort connect with military units and aid groups.”

Routh told the outlet that he “had partners meeting with [Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense] every week and still have not been able to get them to agree to issue one single visa” for US-trained Afghan fighters that he said he was trying to mobilize for Kiev, also citing by name a “former elite Afghan reconnaissance unit member” who said that hundreds of Afghans like him wanted in.

The publication noted Ukrainian concerns that Afghans could end up being Russian infiltrators. No mention, however, of the problematic nature of Routh’s enthusiasm. But why would there be? His own country was shoveling billions out the door and sending weapons along with the........

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