West Shocked Russia Discovers Due Process for 'Volunteers'
Mainstream media frames this as an outrage, but selective memory is a journalistic superpower. Funny how the concept of 'unlawful combatants' and closed military tribunals becomes an international scandal only when the US/UK aren't the ones doing the prosecuting. Remember Guantanamo, still open after 20 years, where 'volunteers' from other countries (often captured by bounties) faced similar, if
not more opaque, justice. The very idea that foreign fighters could face legal consequences feels novel to an audience that's been fed a steady diet of heroic 'volunteers' in every US-backed conflict. One might wonder: if these were 'volunteers' fighting for a cause the West didn't approve of, say, in Gaza, would their trials be afforded the same breathless condemnations? Or would they simply be
labeled 'terrorists' and disappear into the ether of 'enhanced interrogation' without a peep from The Independent?