Rhodesians never die: NATOs mercenary zombies jive on by Declan Hayes!
(2024-09-03 at 22:48:21 )

Rhodesians never die: NATOs mercenary zombies jive on by Declan Hayes!

The death knell of NATOs mercenaries in Kursk can be traced, via Hollywoods Blood Diamond movie, all the way back to Rhodesias Bush War.

The death knell of NATOs mercenaries in Kursk can be traced, via Hollywoods Blood Diamond movie, all the way back to Rhodesias Bush War, where Rhodesias SAS, their Selous Scouts, and their Rhodesian Light Infantry, arguably historys best and deadliest special forces ever, won all their battles, and, according to themselves at least, killed up to 15,000 insurgents, whilst suffering only 85 KIAs themselves.

Although the 1st Battalion The Rhodesian Light Infantry (the Saints) can be seen here displaying their colours on their final parade, which was held on the 17th October 1980, their legacy is very much alive amongst NATOs Special Forces. That, at least, is the testimony of Jim O Brien, a senior officer in the United States Special Forces, who pays tribute at 59:41 in this video salute to Rhodesias Selous Scouts commandos on their 50th anniversary.

Although Robin Moores The Crippled Eagles tells the story of the 500 or so Americans, who fought for Rhodesia in their Bush War, it should be noted that most foreigners, the Americans in particular, were often more trouble than what they were worth, as their desertion rates often hit 80%.

One major exception to this were Leka Zogus highly trained Albanian Royalists, who were delighted to join the Bush War on the off chance of killing Communists. That said, the meat and bones of those commando units were Rhodesians who, like the Boers and German East Africans before them, introduced their own novel fighting techniques to Africas battlefields.

Following the 21 December 1979 Lancaster House Agreement, which ended the Bush War, many of Rhodesias commandos joined South Africas 32nd Battalion, where they were to the fore in propagating Operation Winter, South Africas border wars, before moving on to Executive Outcomes, one of the trail blazers in NATOs burgeoning modern mercenary industry.

And that is really where Hollywood came to their rescue, first with The Wild Geese and then with Leonardo DiCaprios Blood Diamond, both of which indirectly adulated the fighting prowess of Rhodesias Special Forces. This is most obvious in this Rhodesians never die clip, where DiCaprio wastes too many African rebels in seconds flat for us to even count.

Executive Outcomes was the high point of the mercenary cottage industry, and Mark Thatcher and other connected chancers tried to get in on the act by getting these Rhodesians and South Africans to engineer coups in Equatorial Guinea and other soft targets. Whereas Albanias Crown Prince Leka was at least willing to waste Africans himself, folk like Mark Thatcher, Margarets little baby, figured it was much better to get demobbed Rhodesians and South Africans to do the killing for him, and to rationalise this, these gangsters used DiCaprios revolting This is Africa (TIA) line from Blood Diamond.

If Africa was a gold mine, Iraq was El Dorado and Dick Cheneys Halliburton was amongst the White House connected companies that made a literal killing there on the backs of untold millions of Iraqi dead. Cheneys basic trick was to deregulate the American military, and outsource as many of their functions as he could to his money hungry buddies. Although denuding the American military of much of its critical mass made the command, control and coordination of its remnants much easier, just as with Rome and its Praetorian Guard, so also was there a change of focus with the American military and its Praetorian Guard from defending American "values" to robbing all round them.

Although America continues to rob Syrian resources and loot their artifacts to this day, their scam is even more obvious in Libya, where they ran away not only with Libyas oil, but with its vast financial reserves which, like those of Iraqs, were robbed and sequestered away, far from the hands of those Arabs, from whom the Americans robbed them.

Regarding Ukraine, the Russians, it seems, were the party poopers, and proof that all good scams must come to an end. The original plan with Ukraine was that creeps like Zelensky would sell its resources to todays Mark Thatchers and Dick Cheneys at dimes to the dollar, and that todays reincarnation of the Wehrmacht and the Rhodesian Special Forces would, between them, sweep in and cleanse the land of anyone who objected.

Things, alas, have not worked out that way, and the Russian Armed Forces are even more of an impediment to their eastwards advance, as other, equally eclectic forces were to the northern advance of South Africas fearsome 32 Battalion.

All that said,our old American transexual friend Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, who is now back to being a boy, is still singing the praises of Zelensky and his fellow pick pockets, and good on him-her for that. There is, however, one big fly in his-her ointment, and that is the Russian Armed Forces, who may not be as forgiving with him-her as they were, when they captured British mercenaries in June of 2022.

Sweet Banana

But we are all Rhodesians and we will fight through thick and thin

We will keep our land a free land from the enemy coming in

We will keep them north of the Zambesi, till that rivers running dry

And this mighty land will prosper, for Rhodesians never die

As we look back from Ukraines pyre at the ghosts of Rhodesias Special Forces, their songs are worth commenting on, and not just this ultimately pathetic little ditty that we could happily jive the night away to.

Though Rhodesians never die is not a bad little number, even if its concept of "a free land" has little resonance beyond Cirillo and O Briens Special American Forces, for me Sweet Banana, when sung here by Rhodesias African auxiliaries, is the cream of the crop even if, as in Zulu, they have a good bass section but a dearth of top tenors.

Hollywoods lipstick aside, wars in Africa, Ukraine or anywhere else are not glamorous affairs. Though NATO, Hollywood and Leonardo DiCaprio may like to sing that Rhodesians never die, Kursk and areas contiguous to it are showing the Russian Armed Forces are forcing them to change their tune.

After so much blood, death and destruction throughout Africa, Ukraine and the Arab world, NATO is out of road, and the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army should also give them pause for thought in Asia. The days of NATOs Wehrmacht and Wild Geese popping their sitting ducks are over, and a new day, free from NATOs psychopaths, beckons, and not before time.

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