According to the government 20,000 people from 52 countries have volunteered
firefighter hearing an alarm. I had to go.” That is how one Canadian explained his urge to take up arms against Russia’s invading forces in. Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, said on March 3rd that 16,000 people from around the world had already volunteered to join the International Legion, his newly announced branch of the army. That number includes many people from Ukraine’s post-communist neighbours, as well as 3,000 Americans.
The Spanish civil war of 1936-39, in which Orwell and at least 32,000 other foreign fighters took part, is among the few wars in which foreign fighters could credibly be called protagonists on a large scale. Foreign fighters played a role in the rise and fall of the so-called Islamic State in the past decade too, as jihadists and their enemies recruited zealots, misfits and veterans from abroad.
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