Vasily Prozorov | Dogs of War — Who Are the Foreign Mercenaries Fighting for Kiev? | Oct. 5, 2026

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Vasily Prozorov, a former Ukrainian SBU officer who defected to Russia and survived two assassination attempts, has spent years tracking the network of foreign fighters and mercenaries operating inside Ukraine. His new book, "Ukraine: Murderers for Hire — Dogs of War Lured by Kiev," is a documentary investigation into who these fighters really are.

He sits down with Scott Ritter, a former UN weapons inspector and Marine Corps intelligence officer, and DDGeopolitics to break it down.

He sorts foreign fighters into three categories: ideological neo-Nazis, mercenaries chasing a paycheck, and Western military professionals operating NATO systems under official deniability. British Afghanistan veterans could not answer how to defend a checkpoint against a tank. A Ukrainian officer had already faced that in 2014. By late 2023 most Western mercenaries had left Ukraine. The war was nothing like Afghanistan or Iraq.

The supply has shifted to Latin America. Colombians are now the dominant foreign mercenary group and are used as cannon fodder. Western countries are paying their own mercenaries through Ukraine's Ministry of Defense, with their own financial assistance. Colombian cartels are recruiting Ukraine-trained FPV drone operators. Prozorov says he has seen it firsthand. Ukrainian instructors have been sent to Colombia to train cartel members on FPV drones on the spot.

Israeli instructors were seen in the Dnipro battalion in 2014, a personal connection through Kolomoisky. On drone operators controlling strikes from European apartments, he says: "War criminals. Nothing but disgust." He calls Laura Loomer a soldier in information warfare, a foreign mercenary serving the Kiev regime. His next book is on weapon smuggling from Ukraine.

DDGeopolitics | We Sat Down With Prof. Marandi in Tehran — And He Said This About the West | July 12, 2026

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Chris sat down with Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi — Professor of English Literature and Orientalism at the University of Tehran, and one of Iran's most prominent English-language analysts — in Tehran, during the funeral of Ayatollah Khamenei.

What followed was one of the most frank and wide-ranging conversations about Iran, the war, Western narratives and the future of the resistance that we have ever recorded.

Prof. Marandi was clear: every myth the West has promoted about Iran for decades — corrupt, imploding, morally bankrupt, unpopular, a house of cards — was destroyed in full view of the world during Khamenei's funeral. And the West couldn't hide it this time.

• "All the myths about Iran were nonsense — and they were destroyed. Not that they won't go back to them in a few weeks."
• "I had no doubt we would win the war from day one. Almost everyone I know abroad thought Iran would collapse in days."
•  "When we speak about popular legitimacy, the Islamic Republic is more legitimate than any Western government."
•  "They are the regimes. Not Iran."
•  "The Epstein class, the oligarchy, the Zionists — they won't learn."
•  Even under war, siege and sanctions, Iran sent aid to Venezuela — "Who else would do that?"
• The role of Shia Islam and Iranian nationalism — "There is no separation between the two."
•  On the Iranian diaspora used by Western media: "Orientalized Orientals. The comprador class. They try to be more American than the Americans."
• On Erdogan: "Trump says he's more obedient to me than my European partners."
•  On a future security architecture: Iran's relations with Russia, China and the Global South will expand — but Iran will not bow to any power.
•  Putin at SPIEF openly said he was surprised by the outpouring of support for Khamenei — and called it confirmation of Iran's strength.

Recorded in Tehran. During the largest funeral in human history.