Since ejecting foreign troops from Kursk, Russia, authorities have been performing identification of the dead bodies. Positive ID shows NATO country forces ARE in active combat against Russia.
According to the Russia Ministry of Defense, the totals below show the dead (. . .ahem . . .) "mercenaries" from each country who were killed fighting against Russia inside the Russian Oblast (state) of Kursk.
Identities and nationalities were determined from ID documents found on each dead body. Countries in BOLD typeface are NATO countries:
Poland: 1953
Georgia (Caucuses Mountains) 1230
Colombia (South America) 917
France 208
Germany 197
Great Britain (UK) 156
United States 89
Australia 17
Japan 4
The chart below from Statista lays it out:
For the entirety of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the US, UK, France, Germany, and other NATO countries have explicitly said they "are NOT participants in the conflict." Yet they have not only sent arms, ammunition, rockets, missiles, tanks, planes, armored personnel carriers, artillery guns and shells, they still actively provide intelligence and surveillance, their actual citizens are begin found dead, in large numbers, inside the conflict zone!
NATO countries saying they "are not participants in the conflict" is now -- and has been -- a deliberate lie.
Hal Turner Snap Analysis
The idea that these are all "mercenaries" is so blatantly false it would be laughable if it wasn't so pathetic.
Here in my country, the United States, I know that Congress has not declared war upon Russia. So why are there dead Americans in Kursk?
Mercenaries, you say? As far as I know, it is UNLAWFUL for any American citizen to engage in war against another country.
Who granted permission for American "mercenaries" to enter that conflict and fight?
OK, OK, I'll stop being naive. We all know that a large portion of these dead Americans were former US Military guys who got promised big cash money if they "retired" from their US Service and agreed to become "employed" in Ukraine.
We all know those offers of big-bucks-employment are coming to active duty troops, inside the armed forces, and those offers are likely being conveyed by active duty officers.
This is someone running an actual war while trying to claim we're not.
I'm tired of this charade.
I want my country out of all involvement with Ukraine.
This was a bad idea from the start. Whoever the utter MORONS were, who thought we could wage a proxy war against a Superpower like Russia, should be fired for being the INCOMPETENTS they have shown themselves to be. I want them arrested, charged, indicted, prosecuted, convicted in court, and jailed for unlawfully engaging in undeclared war.
If there is some way to enter a charge against the high-ranking Pentagon military officers who pushed for this to take place, accusing them of "criminal stupidity" that would be good, too.
This was a stupid action, concocted by stupid people in the Pentagon / DoD. Stupid. Really stupid people.