Remember back in 2020 when the media accused Trump of ignoring intel reports of Russian agents in Afghanistan paying Taliban goons to kill American soldiers? And then Trump denied it and went apeshit like he did with every one of his other screwups and misdeeds? And then after he lost it new reporting indicated the intel wasn’t really as solid as it first appeared so maybe Trump was actually telling the truth? And then we were like “Hahaha fuck you, you lied about so much other shit so of course nobody believed you when you denied the bounty story, sucks for you”?
Well it turns out some Russians military officers may have actually been implicated in a cash-for-dead soldiers scheme. Except they’re the ones getting paid. By Americans. To sell out the locations and movements of their own troops, the Daily Beast reports. One Russian colonel purportedly sold out his airborne brigade for “17 million,” per a phone conversation between a soldier on the front lines and a woman in Russia (It’s not clear if “17 million” was dollars or rubles). The soldier said the “Colonel Matkovsky” was not the first nor the last high-ranking officer to have betrayed his men.